Photo AI 1.0.7 - is it just me, or are the results vastly improved?

Started Oct 29, 2022 | Discussions thread
CrisL Senior Member • Posts: 1,187
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Digital Nigel wrote:

ProDude wrote:

Digital Nigel wrote:

ProDude wrote:

Ernie Misner wrote:

Amazing and good to hear. Did you open your raw file directly in Photo AI, or?

Yes indeed I did take a ORF file right into the program. It does a nice job

I'm finding that, for raws, Photo AI falls a long way short of PhotoLab 6 with DeepPRIME XD. See https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/66596422

Of course, Photo AI has the advantage with JPEGs.

Well not really. But then it depends on how much you hate digital noise. I personally prefer to ban it altogether and not compromise the detail. Yes DXO does a admirable job in this area. Better than anyone else out there, BUT perhaps in one manner not as well as Topaz. I can manipulate a 12,800ISO image with Topaz and end up with a finely detailed image, NO color noise nor ANY grain.

But no detail, either. Photo AI's heavy-handed NR loses all the detail.

If I try it on DXO it gets rid of most of the grain, but in many cases leaves some. Its a personal choice. limit it, moderate it or BAN it. I prefer the later. To each their own. From my recent testing I must say Topaz is getting VERY close to an essentially perfect software package with the Photo AI. Perhaps another couple updates and they can be there.

You get less detail with Photo AI than DeepPRIME XD, plus the Topaz raw processor is very poor (and isn't improving). For best noise-free results process raws in PhotoLab, then apply a final polish in Photo AI.

Sometimes it may be true but I found in this case PAI is definitively removing too much details  even  if you put the remove noise strengh to the minimum 1  . I got better controllable result using ON1 NoNoise AI after DXO

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