Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2025/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Exactly. Tina Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 3, 2025, at 1:29?PM, Nathan Wajsman via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> wrote: > > ?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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information