{"id":4231,"date":"2023-09-08T15:58:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T22:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/?p=4231"},"modified":"2023-09-10T13:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T20:36:05","slug":"out-now-and-on-sale-topaz-photo-ai-2-0-save-40-through-9-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/out-now-and-on-sale-topaz-photo-ai-2-0-save-40-through-9-22\/","title":{"rendered":"OUT NOW AND ON SALE! Topaz Photo AI 2.0 (save $40 through 9\/22)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Topaz has just released a major upgrade to their flagship app, Photo AI<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 now in version 2! This is a massive release with many new models, including some entirely new enhancements, and many improvements to nearly every single part of the app!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current launch sale<\/a><\/strong> saves you $40 off<\/strong> a new purchase, and you can also save by renewing an existing license.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Here’s a quick summary of what’s new and improved (you can read more in-depth on the Topaz website<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adjust Lighting and Balance Color
Correct underexposed or backlit images
Neutralize strong color casts
Significantly improved raw processing and noise removal
Sharpen Standard v2
New Autopilot Preferences
Upscale from Photoshop<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s look at some results using a variety of source image types. You can see the settings used on the right side of each screenshot. In all cases, the sad old images were greatly improved! Open any screenshot in a new window or tab to view at 100%.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first couple of examples are from 20+ year old, 1-megapixel images:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Next, a scan from a 1990’s 35mm slide:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Now a scan from a 1990s 35mm negative:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Back to digital, this time a jump to 6 megapixels from a Minolta camera released in 2006:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Then a 16 megapixel source from a 2012 Nikon camera:<\/p>\n\n\n

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An example from a Canon DSLR (RAW input):<\/p>\n\n\n

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Let’s not forget the Recovering faces option! I find this extremely useful when working with scans of old prints, film and lo-res digital sources:<\/p>\n\n\n

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I’m excited to see Topaz adding even more functionality to an already best-of-class app. If you don’t already have it or ned to upgrade to it, take advantage of the current special<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is a more detailed list of changes since the last release of the previous version:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Changes since 1.5.4:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022Added v2 of the Sharpen Standard model
\u2022Added v2 of the Remove Noise RAW models
\u2022Fixed tiling artifacts
\u2022Added Adjust Lighting enhancement
\u2022Added Balance Color enhancement
\u2022Added automate plugin for Photoshop, which allows for cropping and upscaling
\u2022Access the plugin within Photoshop by going to File > Automate > Topaz Photo AI
\u2022Added many new configuration options over how Autopilot works
\u2022Added new panel displaying the status of Autopilot
\u2022Hover over the status bar to review the completed steps
\u2022Updated design of the different panels of the app
\u2022Updated status bar and autopilot section to use less space
\u2022Updated design of sliders
\u2022Fixed right panel scroll position not resetting when switching images
\u2022Fixed inconsistent behavior regarding the enhancement being collapsed or not when toggling on by clicking the label (not the switch)
\u2022Fixed some Panasonic & Minolta images having incorrect orientation
\u2022Fixed some Sony images having incorrect orientation on export
\u2022Fixed some exported non-RAW files opening in Camera RAW
\u2022Fixed noise levels sometimes being \u201cundefined\u201d in Remove Noise tooltip
\u2022Fixed crash when detecting faces
\u2022Fixed Autopilot not enabling Remove Noise when it should
\u2022File size estimates are now cached
\u2022Improved performance when opening many images at once
\u2022Updated lensfun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Topaz has just released a major upgrade to their flagship app, Photo AI \u2013 now in version 2! This is a massive release with many new models, including some entirely new enhancements, and many improvements to nearly every single part of the app! The current launch sale saves you $40 off a new purchase, and you Read more about OUT NOW AND ON SALE! Topaz Photo AI 2.0 (save $40 through 9\/22)<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4242,"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":[384,281,1134,223,240,168,243,1133,66,279,1130,8,178,38,153,173,805],"class_list":["post-4231","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-adjustments","tag-ai","tag-autopilot","tag-coupon","tag-coupon-code","tag-discount","tag-discounts","tag-face-recovery","tag-image-enhancement","tag-noise-reduction","tag-photo-ai","tag-photoshop","tag-plug-in","tag-post-processing","tag-topaz","tag-topaz-labs","tag-upscale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231","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=4231"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4270,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions\/4270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}