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 was going to comment how the photo of the dairy farmer in Bolivia you just posted on FB looks so amazingly smooth for TMZ. Now I know the reason :-) Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman photo at frozenlight.eu http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.frozenlight.eu @nwajsman.bsky.social ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > On 3 Mar 2025, at 18:44, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information