TOPAZ SHARPEN AI SOFTWARE
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You can use Photoshop, Topaz Studio, Adjust AI or any other image editing tools at your disposal.

Apply Creative Editing in Photoshop, Adjust AI and Topaz StudioThe next step is to apply any creative edits that your image needs.

Aim for the minimum amount of noise reduction to get the look you want (zero noise can often look a little unnatural) and a crisp, but not over-sharpened image. We suggest keeping the Sharpening slider on zero (which will apply a small amount of sharpening) or at a low setting to apply a slight bit of capture sharpening to the image. If not, then you will need to send the file to the DeNoise AI by whatever method your applications suggest.Īdjust the DeNoise settings as required for your image. If you have opened your image in Photoshop you should run Topaz DeNoise AI from the filters menu. Not every file will need any noise reduction, but if yours does then now is the time to do it. This also allows for the application of Topaz adjustments on layers that can be masked or have their opacity adjusted later. The Topaz products can all be run as plugins from Photoshop and we find it more efficient to use Photoshop as a host than running each program from within Lightroom.

Send the file to Photoshop (optional)We find it helpful to send the file from Lightroom into Photoshop as a 16-bit TIFF file at this stage.

Process your raw file with your raw converter, but turn off sharpening and noise reductionYour first step should be to adjust the tone, exposure, colour and any other controls to convert your RAW file into a processed state.īecause you will be doing Noise Reduction and Sharpening with Topaz products you should ensure that those settings are turned off in your RAW converter.

We use Lightroom, but On1, Capture One, Photo Labs, etc will all do a great job. You would be much better served using one of the many fully fledged applications designed for this job. Some of the Topaz products can open RAW files directly, however we don’t suggest you process your RAW files in any Topaz products as they do a fairly poor job at it. As we have been using Topaz products for a while now, we are able to offer the workflow we have come up with. If the above information doesn’t really answer your workflow questions, you aren’t alone.

Topaz Studio 2: Should be used after noise reduction, before resizing.

Adjust AI: After noise reduction and creative editing.

Gigapix el AI: Should generally be used as the last step in your workflow, except in the case of very low resolution images (low-res images are not applicable to what we are discussing here).

Topaz Denoise AI: Should be used at the very beginning of the editing process.

The FAQs are inconsistent and poorly written so I have paraphrased below: In addition to the above article, Topaz also offers some advice on the FAQ pages of individual applications. The article is designed more to sell their products than to be genuinely helpful to users. It isn’t very helpful for anyone who shoots in RAW and/or uses Lightroom, Capture One or any other photo management software. However it only lists the order in which to use their own products. Topaz Labs does have an article that offers some general advice on the topic, titled ‘ The Ultimate Workflow for Topaz Labs AI Software’. Namely: DeNoise AI, Sharpen AI, Gigapixel AI, Adjust AI and Topaz Studio 2 Topaz suggested workflow This article will only look at the Topaz products involved in processing photos.

TOPAZ SHARPEN AI TRIAL

Through trial and error we have come up with a suggested Topaz AI workflow that you can use or modify for your own images.

TOPAZ SHARPEN AI SOFTWARE

There have however, been some questions regarding how best to integrate the software into a typical photography workflow. You've complained about the artifacts created by Sharpen AI, so I wonder if that might be the result of an ineffective workflow.The Topaz AI suite of software offers photographers some impressive options in the area of noise reduction, sharpening and upsizing. Indeed, upon using Sharpen AI the first time, it became immediately apparent to me that it had to be used as the very first part of the creative sharpening process.

However, when using artificial intelligence to sharpen an image that was not adequately sharpened at the time of capture, everything changes. The output sharpening is applied last in the typical workflow. There are essentially three types of sharpening: capture sharpening, creative sharpening and output sharpening. Sharpen AI assumes the sharpening at the time of capture is inadequate for routine post-processing sharpening to be effective. That's because additional sharpening assumes the sharpening at the time of capture is adequate for routine post-processing sharpening to be effective. I don't think of Sharpening AI as additional sharpening as much as a different type of sharpening.

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