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  • Topaz Photo AI does not work any more

    From Alfred Molon@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 18 01:01:34 2023
    I've been using Topaz Photo AI since last September, with initially good results.

    But now, with the current version (1.3.0), I get incredibly blurry
    images with the autopilot.

    Here is an example:
    https://www.molon.de/images/photoai_130_vs_sept_2022.png

    Left is what I get with autopilot, to the right is what I get when I
    push the sharpening slider close to 100.
    In the middle is what I got last September.

    The result to the right is not as bad as the result to the left, but a
    lot of fine detail which is visible in the result I got last September
    is blurry. In fact, the image to the right looks quite plasticky.

    I've emailed Topaz Labs, asking them to send me the version of Topaz AI
    of last September.
    --
    Alfred Molon

    Olympus 4/3 and micro 4/3 cameras forum at
    https://groups.io/g/myolympus
    https://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site

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  • From RichA@21:1/5 to Alfred Molon on Sat Apr 22 16:48:22 2023
    On Monday, 17 April 2023 at 19:01:43 UTC-4, Alfred Molon wrote:
    I've been using Topaz Photo AI since last September, with initially good results.

    But now, with the current version (1.3.0), I get incredibly blurry
    images with the autopilot.

    Here is an example:
    https://www.molon.de/images/photoai_130_vs_sept_2022.png

    Left is what I get with autopilot, to the right is what I get when I
    push the sharpening slider close to 100.
    In the middle is what I got last September.

    The result to the right is not as bad as the result to the left, but a
    lot of fine detail which is visible in the result I got last September
    is blurry. In fact, the image to the right looks quite plasticky.

    I've emailed Topaz Labs, asking them to send me the version of Topaz AI
    of last September.
    --
    Alfred Molon

    Olympus 4/3 and micro 4/3 cameras forum at
    https://groups.io/g/myolympus
    https://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site

    Like watching a cheap 4K TV on a scene with motion with a 60th second refresh rate.

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