[Leica] I came over to the dark side

[Tina Manley]

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
> >
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