Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2025/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I find the Topaz Photo Ai to be amazing. Now I can go back to photos I took in 1993 using TMZ - 1600 ISO - film. I can apply the Topaz Photo Ai and tell it to resolve the faces. It's so good, I have to fade it quite a bit so it still looks like film! The peoples' faces really pop. I don't usually add or remove anything and their faces are not changed, just resolved incredibly well!! The Topaz Sharpen is also incredibly good (faded) but I don't often use Topaz DeNoise because it's blotchy. I prefer to add noise instead. ;-) Tina On Sun, Mar 2, 2025 at 7:21?PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > I have subscribed to the Adobe subscription for a long time. The tools are > incredible but like anything judgement is required. If it is journalism > like Chris Crawford is doing then I restrict myself to exposure, dodge, > burn and spotting. > > On the other hand if it is impresdionistic the all the tools are on the > table. > > To Brians question the late addition of upsampling mostly works but can > occasionally fail miserably. Just keep your originals sacrosanct. > > On Sun, Mar 2, 2025, 3:55 PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > > Yep. I actually purchased the Adobe Photographer subscription a while > > back before the prices went up. I have not done much with it yet > > preferring to stick with Lightroom 6 and CS6, but I have gotten curious > > about the AI abilities in removing objects. I have to say I am mostly > > impressed. Here are a few examples from a recent trip to Leavenworth. > > They are doing a lot of construction along the main drag so there was > > lots of equipment interfering with the usual nice views, so I took some > > shots anyway specifically to try the AI removal tools in LR and > > Photoshop. Here are the results. > > > > Original Image with some offending outhouses: Leavenworth WA-1004237 > > < > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004237.jpg.html > > > > > > > A little AI removal: Leavenworth WA-1004237-Edit > > < > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004237-Edit.jpg.html > > > > > > > Another original image with trucks and structures: Leavenworth > > WA-1004234 > > < > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004234.jpg.html > > > > > > > And AI removal: Leavenworth WA-1004234-Edit > > < > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004234-Edit.jpg.html > > > > > > > > > If you were to blow them up and look carefully I am sure you could see > > they were worked on. For one thing, the AI synthisized image is much > > lower resolution than the Q3 original image. I think it is 1 or 2 K > > resolution. And of course there would be a few artifacts that if I was > > really industrious I would have to work on. But by and large they took > > a totally unacceptable image and made it into a pretty good mediocre > > image in my unskilled hands. Maybe you are an old hand at this so these > > seem pretty amateurish to you. Maybe I will work on it or maybe I will > > just take more time to line shots up that do not require the use of this > > tool. Be a real photographer rather than a technician. > > > > Comments welcome. > > > > Aram > > > > > > > > -- > > Aram Langhans > > (Semi) Retired Science Teacher > > & Unemployed photographer > > > > ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin > himself > > would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- https://pbase.com/tinamanley