{"id":4176,"date":"2023-06-11T12:54:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T19:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/?p=4176"},"modified":"2023-06-11T12:58:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T19:58:05","slug":"on-sale-through-6-16-topaz-photo-ai-save-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/on-sale-through-6-16-topaz-photo-ai-save-40\/","title":{"rendered":"ON SALE THROUGH 6\/16: Topaz Photo AI (save $40)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The latest version of Topaz Photo AI<\/strong>, 1.3.8, is currently on sale at a $40 discount<\/a> through this coming Friday, June 16. I’ve long relied on Topaz apps for bringing my nearly 50 years of film-based and early digital photos up to modern standards of usability \u2013 removing noise and grain, recovering detail while enlarging, and sharpening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s take a quick look at some practical uses for Topaz’s flagship product, Photo AI<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an amateur genealogist researching history for my family, I often come across images from over a century ago, whether online in lo-res form or tiny prints scanned from old photo albums. Either way, these images need some sort of restoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This particular example is of a bank manager with whom one of my ancestral relatives had some business dealings in 1906. I found a small scan of the original 4×5 negative of this man online, and of course it was hard to see any details. No problem, Photo AI was able to enlarge a crop of the image to 4X while restoring details of the man’s face as if it were taken just today \u2013 especially when adding colorization in Photoshop!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Even modern photos found online are most likely to be in lo-res format to allow for quick downloading. I have my own photo of a hawk on the main page of the Plugs ‘n Pixels website<\/a><\/strong>, reduced in size from the original. Photo AI was able to work its restoration magic, again at 4X:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Another situation where upscaling and restoration is needed is with images created with the new “stable diffusion” AI technology, which usually limits the results to a max of about 869px per side. I recently experimented with this using the free DiffusionBee<\/a><\/strong> app for Mac, creating some scenics using text-to-image prompts. Photo AI<\/a><\/strong> once again performed 4X enlargement while adding back smoothness and detail missing in the original:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Think about how your own photos and digital renderings can be enhanced with Topaz AI technology! Move fast to grab this current special<\/a> before it ends on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest version of Topaz Photo AI, 1.3.8, is currently on sale at a $40 discount through this coming Friday, June 16. I’ve long relied on Topaz apps for bringing my nearly 50 years of film-based and early digital photos up to modern standards of usability \u2013 removing noise and grain, recovering detail while enlarging, Read more about ON SALE THROUGH 6\/16: Topaz Photo AI (save $40)<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4178,"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":[281,1240,168,771,314,1244,1243,1130,588,1242,153,173],"class_list":["post-4176","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-ai","tag-diffusionbee","tag-discount","tag-enhancement","tag-enlargement","tag-family-history","tag-geneaology","tag-photo-ai","tag-save","tag-stable-diffusion","tag-topaz","tag-topaz-labs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176","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=4176"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4195,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions\/4195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}