Topaz Gigapixel

Fred Kingston

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I do... I crop a lot... This image was cropped about 200% and upscaled with GigaPixel

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Use this link https://topazlabs.com/ref/1316/?campaign=Nikonites and at checkout use Friend15 for the discount code and get 15% off.
 

Fred Kingston

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I may be confused on what it does. Is it only for cropping?

No... It increases the resolution of an image... Mostly used to upscale an image for printing... especially large prints...

I typically use it to increase the resolution on an image before cropping the image... then in retains detail... You lose detail when you crop really tight and then blow it up... I shoot with a D810 which is 36M... and sometimes with a D750 which is 24M... When I compare the two, the D750 image is always lacking... Giga puts the D750 images on equal footing...

Here's the original image

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Fred Kingston

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How fast/slow is the app. The other Topaz sharpening program I tried was really slow.

Every release this past year has sped all their programs up quite a bit... I may not be the best judge of that though, because I use a new M1 Mac... The tree major ones, Sharpen, Denoise and GigaPixel are now native M1 Mac compliant. Topaz has done quite a bit of work on those three programs this last year...
 

hark

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@FredKingston
How fast/slow is the app. The other Topaz sharpening program I tried was really slow.

Every release this past year has sped all their programs up quite a bit... I may not be the best judge of that though, because I use a new M1 Mac... The tree major ones, Sharpen, Denoise and GigaPixel are now native M1 Mac compliant. Topaz has done quite a bit of work on those three programs this last year...

What kind of RAM and processing power do you have, Dawg Pics?
 

Dawg Pics

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MacBook Pro

It is plenty fast, but I am not a fan of the short battery life or how hot the damn thing runs. I would prefer to ditch it and its crappy keyboard for a Mac Mini or something else.
 
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Fred Kingston

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[MENTION=26505]Dawg Pics[/MENTION]

You're going to see some spectacular price drops for Mac Minis in the next few weeks after Apple announces the new ones tomorrow... Especially the now out-dated Intel versions... Just be sure you get an M1 with the Apple chip and not the older Intel chips...
 

hark

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You're going to see some spectacular price drops for Mac Minis in the next few weeks after Apple announces the new ones tomorrow... Especially the now out-dated Intel versions... Just be sure you get an M1 with the Apple chip and not the older Intel chips...

Fred, how much RAM will she need for Topaz and Adobe to work properly?
 

Fred Kingston

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Fred, how much RAM will she need for Topaz and Adobe to work properly?

I'm running a 2021 M1 Mac Mini with a 16G of Ram and a 500G SSD... Everything, runs very fast... both Denoise and Sharpen can batch process multiple files... I will run a test (timing because that seems to be everyone's concerns) later today... and report back... Most of these programs have now been (or are in process of being) optimized for the M1 chips...
 

Dawg Pics

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I don't use Adobe for anything, so I would have to use it stand-alone. However, I still have Bridge on one computer from when I had the monthly subcription, but I never use it.
16GB is recommended for the Topaz programs, which I have now and wouldn't go for anything less at this point.

I think I will start a new thread, regarding computers in 2022 since we hijacked this one. Although, I think all of the information is valid considering we are talking about an editing program.:)
 

Fred Kingston

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Here's what I did...

I selected 10 NEF files with high ISO settings
I batch processed those 10 images using Denoise... Each image took between 10 and 11 seconds to process... I did this using Denoise Stand-alone... Using Lightroom on the individual files to initiate Denoise individually took the same amount of time to return the processed images to Lightroom as a plug-in

I then batch processed those same files using GigaPixel to upscale those images 2X... Each of those images took between 21 and 24 seconds to upscale... Each process shows a progressing status bar as well as the actual time it takes as each file is processed... IOW, NOT the static stalled screen as in the past...while you twiddle your fingers wondering what's going on...
 

jonritter

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Here's what I did...

I selected 10 NEF files with high ISO settings
I batch processed those 10 images using Denoise... Each image took between 10 and 11 seconds to process... I did this using Denoise Stand-alone... Using Lightroom on the individual files to initiate Denoise individually took the same amount of time to return the processed images to Lightroom as a plug-in

I then batch processed those same files using GigaPixel to upscale those images 2X... Each of those images took between 21 and 24 seconds to upscale... Each process shows a progressing status bar as well as the actual time it takes as each file is processed... IOW, NOT the static stalled screen as in the past...while you twiddle your fingers wondering what's going on...

I have a M1 MBP 16gb RAM and 1TB hard drive and have similar experience as Fred. Gigapixel is slightly slower, but denoise and sharpen fly.


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Fred Kingston

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This is sort a public service announcement...

Topaz is changing their Affiliate Marketing discounts effective August 1st... Rather than offer a an Open Discount thru their Affiliates, they're going to turn OFF the Existing discount codes and offer only discounts on specific products for specific periods/campaigns... If you've been contemplating getting one of their products, between now and Aug 1st, you can still use the "Friend15" discount code on any of their products... After Aug. 1st, that code will be turned OFF...

Here is my Affiliate link https://topazlabs.com/ref/1316/?campaign=Nikonites for Nikonites
 

DrJ

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I just posted this on the Photo AI thread. It really belongs here.
I have and use Photo AI and Gigapixel. Gigapixel can increase the resolution of an image but it can't add information to it. The basic information is contained in the original image. What I believe Gigapixel does is divide the original pixels in quarters resulting in 4 "new" pixels. Then it computes the values of each "new pixel" based on the values of the original pixel and the surrounding "old pixels". It thus removes the pixelation you get when zooming into the low resolution image but it doesn't add any new information to the image. Pretty clever, though.
 
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