{"id":3432,"date":"2022-05-04T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T22:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2022-05-04T16:18:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T23:18:31","slug":"ends-friday-topaz-image-quality-bundle-save-99-another-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/ends-friday-topaz-image-quality-bundle-save-99-another-15\/","title":{"rendered":"ENDS FRIDAY: Topaz Image Quality Bundle (save $99 + another 15%)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

REMINDER:<\/strong> Topaz has been running a sale on the entire Image Quality Bundle<\/strong><\/a>, which consists of DeNoise AI, Gigapixel AI<\/strong><\/strong> and Sharpen AI<\/strong>. This very generous sale ends in only 2 days (Friday, May 6). You can access the sale via the link above and if you use coupon code “plugsnpixels”, you’ll get an additional 15% off<\/em> the sale price! And this 15% off is still good at any other time, but if you want to STACK the discounts, you need to act before the weekend \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These particular apps address noise removal, increasing image size<\/strong><\/strong> and sharpening <\/strong>\u2013 treatments that on their own or combined can help any of your photos, especially older ones shot on grainy film or with early low-megapixel digital technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote about this offer a couple of weeks ago<\/a> and since this is such a great deal on great software, I’ll go through it again with some new examples so you don’t miss it! This software is best in its class<\/strong>, and it’s constantly getting better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll discuss the apps in the order listed above, with DeNoise AI<\/a><\/strong> first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I mentioned above, if you’ve been taking photos for a long time as I have (over 45 years), you will have a LOT of really nice captures in your collection that suffer from various visual ailments due to the technology that existed at the time they were taken. A most common problem will be noise, whether from film grain (who didn’t use Tri-X?) or low-megapixel grit (the first digital camera I used regularly was 1-megapixel…).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s an extreme noise example, a night shot of the beginnings of one of those huge California forest fires, taken in 2004 with a 4-megapixel (non-DSLR) consumer camera. What a gritty mess! Bad light, slow exposure, low-end sensor. DeNoise AI<\/a><\/strong> cleared it right up! I didn’t even have to adjust the default settings for the chosen model. (Open any image in a new tab or window to view at 100%.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another extreme example, shot by photographer Judy Gilde<\/a><\/strong> at ISO 12800 (!). DeNoise AI<\/a><\/strong> took a nice but otherwise unusable image and completely salvaged it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next up, Gigapixel AI<\/a><\/strong>. I have endless fun with this app as it not only enables you to enlarge small-sized scans or low-res digital captures for extreme contemporary commercial use<\/a>, but it also cleans the image along the way while restoring detail!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This shot was taken in Puerto Vallarta Mexico (also in 2004, a few months after the one above) with the same 4-megapixel camera. If you try to enlarge it 4X without assistance, you get pixelated mush. With Gigapixel AI<\/a><\/strong>, it’s like I went back and reshot the scene with a much better camera!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can see the full frame in the navigation area of the screenshots below. I am showing the possible level of enhancement as applied to various tiny areas of the image in Gigapixel AI<\/a><\/strong> alone, without even attempting to sharpen or denoise it further:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another example, from 2005. You cannot get this clean level of upscaling in other similar apps, I TRIED:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As if that level of restoration isn’t good enough, Gigapixel AI<\/a><\/strong> is always getting better! Here is a teaser; I can say no more…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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*Until Friday (5\/6), there is a sale on the entire Image Quality Bundle<\/strong><\/a>, which consists of DeNoise AI, Gigapixel AI<\/strong><\/strong> and Sharpen AI<\/strong>. You can access the sale via the link above and if you use coupon code “plugsnpixels”, you’ll get an additional 15% off<\/em> the sale price!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next we move on to Sharpen AI<\/a><\/strong>. Sharpening is one of the basic things you can do to quickly improve a poor image, and this app does it very well. In the latest issue of Photoshop User<\/em>, Scott Kelby<\/strong> says, “I sharpen my images with\u00a0Topaz Sharpen AI<\/strong>, and it\u2019s so good that I hardly use Photoshop\u2019s sharpening tools at all these days.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creeping ahead into 2006, I’m still using that 4-megapixel camera and doing my best to get decent photos with it. This close-up of antique typewriter keys was really nice, but being handheld in poor light with shallow depth-of-field, just wasn’t as good as it should have been. All these years later, all fixed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I hope you find this latest level of image enhancement technology encouraging! Take this chance to grab the entire Image Quality Bundle<\/strong><\/a>, which consists of DeNoise AI, Gigapixel AI<\/strong><\/strong> and Sharpen AI<\/strong> at the sharply reduced price. You can access the sale via the link above and if you use coupon code “plugsnpixels”, you’ll get an additional 15% off<\/em> the sale price!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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REMINDER: Topaz has been running a sale on the entire Image Quality Bundle, which consists of DeNoise AI, Gigapixel AI and Sharpen AI. This very generous sale ends in only 2 days (Friday, May 6). You can access the sale via the link above and if you use coupon code “plugsnpixels”, you’ll get an additional Read more about ENDS FRIDAY: Topaz Image Quality Bundle (save $99 + another 15%)<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,25,31,7,1],"tags":[1077,339,1071,223,79,620,168,314,331,1073,437,549,278,66,921,185,1079,1078,1075,103,8,61,178,10,1074,320,295,568,60,947,153,173,1072,1076,544,805],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discounts","category-general","category-photography","category-post-processing","category-software","category-uncategorized","tag-antique","tag-california","tag-climate-change","tag-coupon","tag-cruise","tag-denoise-ai","tag-discount","tag-enlargement","tag-facial-enhancement","tag-film-scan","tag-forest-fire","tag-gigapixel-ai","tag-grain","tag-image-enhancement","tag-image-quality-bundle","tag-interpolate","tag-judy-gilde","tag-megapixel","tag-mexico","tag-napp","tag-photoshop","tag-photoshop-user","tag-plug-in","tag-plugins","tag-puerto-vallarta","tag-resolution","tag-sale","tag-save-15","tag-scott-kelby","tag-sharpen-ai","tag-topaz","tag-topaz-labs","tag-tri-x","tag-typewriter","tag-uprez","tag-upscale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}