Topaz sharpen AI

mikew_RIP

Senior Member
Stuck in at the moment so i downloaded a trial of this, if i started with a better image it could be interesting.

Base image

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Edit in Topaz and photoshop

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I think its worth playing a bit more with Topaz but the main trouble i have is my computer isnt up to it.
 

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
I think its worth playing a bit more with Topaz but the main trouble i have is my computer isnt up to it.
Think I'll give this a trial run... 30 days is plenty of time to see how Topaz compares to what I can do with Photoshop's Smart Sharpen, Unsharp Mask, Shake Reduction tools and/or using a High Pass filter. $60 for a single tool isn't cheap, but neither is it a King's ransom if the results are fast and consistently good.
 

mikew_RIP

Senior Member
Think I'll give this a trial run... 30 days is plenty of time to see how Topaz compares to what I can do with Photoshop's Smart Sharpen, Unsharp Mask, Shake Reduction tools and/or using a High Pass filter. $60 for a single tool isn't cheap, but neither is it a King's ransom if the results are fast and consistently good.

Hope you will add your thoughts after trying it, my ability with PP is just a little limited.
 

Bengan

Senior Member
A quick edit with Topaz AI plugged in to Photoshop Elements. Photo was taken with a 16 Mpixel Pentax and Sigma 18-300 lens

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Call_me_Tom

Senior Member
I gave the trial a spin last weekend and it also bogged my MBP down. I didn’t notice anything after it was finished doing its thing.
 

mikew_RIP

Senior Member
Click on the split window icon. Then you can drag the split line back and forth to see before and after

Yes i use that but still don't get to se the full edit results until ime back in photoshop, i think its because i have to view the result at 100% or larger while in topaz, if its high ISO images they look better reduced.
 

Woodyg3

Senior Member
Contributor
I looked at the Topaz web site and it looks like my graphics card doesn't have enough VRAM for Sharpen AI. Rats! I would have liked to give it a 30 day trial.
 

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
I've been working with the free trial version and I've come to my decision about it.

The good part is Topaz Sharpen does a really nice job. There's a wee bit of a learning curve that has to be gotten over to maximize its potential, but it's a rather gentle one in my opinion and the results, overall, are excellent.

The flip-side of that coin is that Topaz Sharpen runs dog slow on my Windows PC. If I had to guess my GPU, with only 2GB of memory, is just not up to the task as the list of supported hardware on the Topaz website certainly suggests. More importantly to me, Topaz Sharpen isn't doing a significantly better job than what I can accomplish with the standard "arsenal" that comes with Photoshop. Between Adobe's Anti Shake Filter (which does a great job of when the shutter speed used was a little too slow) the counter-intuitively-named Unsharp Mask, Smart Sharpen (which has improved significantly in recent releases) and the High Pass Filter, I feel I have everything I need and really, because I'm familiar with the existing tools, it's simply faster for me to continue using them. I'd be willing to add Topaz Sharpen to my established 'flow if I felt the juice was worth the squeeze but for me... It's just not. For those who haven't sold their soul to Adobe I can see it being an excellent option.
 
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