![]() Is it possible to edit an image using 2 processing modes at the same time?.It will help you convert RAW to the supported file types and edit it with Sharpen AI. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to work with RAW files yet but you can always convert your files by using an image converter. ![]() Yes, AI Sharpen works with PNG, TIFF, and JPEG file formats. ![]() Does Sharpen AI support the most common file types?. ![]() Then, it enhances the quality of your images. This is the software that detects the main issues with your image, be it poor focus, signs of camera shake, or softness thanks to Machine Learning. Advanced users can edit pictures in a manual mode by using sliders. If you aren’t a top-notch professional photographer yet, make sure to choose the latter. The Topaz Sharpen AI has an intuitive user interface with two main editing modes, namely a manual or auto one. If you don’t use a tripod, your image is likely to look soft due to some camera wobbling. It can be used to make slight adjustments. Sharpen mode is a useful tool when one needs to rise an overall sharpness level of a picture.Focus mode is capable of correcting up to 10 pixels of blur caused by poor focus which is quite handy if you have some issues with your camera’s focus.Thanks to it, any hand-held picture will look as if it was taken in a studio from a tripod. Stabilize mode is helpful when you need to reduce blurriness caused by reverse motion.It also fixes problems that many photographers will be working quite hard to avoid in the first place.Sharpen AI starts from detecting the cause of decreased image quality, be it an issue caused by the movement of the camera, poor focus, or overall blurriness. When it doesn’t, it’s a bit disappointing, especially in view of the cost and the time it takes. When it works, Topaz Photo AI is very good. Topaz Photo AI is expensive and quite slow to use, and while it can fix some photo problems remarkably well, they have to fall into what I’ll call its ‘fixability window’, and you have to have enough of these problem photos in the first place to make it worth the cost. With phone images I found it tended to upscale the phone processing artefacts rather than finding or adding new detail. The upscaling works really well on images with good intrinsic detail and not too much processing – such as those from a DSLR or mirrorless camera. The Upscale and Enhance Resolution tools will often be used together. There is a ‘processed’ look about the results, but it’s still an effective tool for rescuing or enhancing unrepeatable people shots. It works surprisingly well on people who are just out of focus or not quite sharp. The Recover Faces tool kicks in when the software recognizes faces in the frame and thinks they need fixing. Shots that were just slightly soft underwent a pretty dramatic transformation, and shots with poor focusing had variable outcomes – often with obviously processed edge detail and ‘filling in’ of the sort you see with over-processed phone images. I found that shots on the wrong side of its ‘fixability’ threshold were made worse – including any kind of double-image blur from camera shake. The Sharpen process can be spectacular or bad, depending on the image. I wouldn’t put this in the same league as DxO’s DeepPRIME XD processing. I found myself pushing the Detail slider up to maximum and the Strength slider down to zero to get results that looked smooth and crisp. The noise removal is very effective but quite aggressive by default. The results vary, depending on the quality of the image you’re starting from and its particular issues. (Image credit: Rod Lawton) (opens in new tab) The recovered detail in the rocks and the leaves, top right, is pretty remarkable. This is the most spectacular outcome, though the Autopilot didn't think this needed sharpening it all, so it was done manually. Photo AI is easy to use, and there are relatively few settings so there’s not a whole lot to learn. This is just for the on-screen preview – when you save a processed image, there’s some more rendering to be done there too. And if you decide to experiment with the settings, that rendering process has to happen again. This also takes time, as each AI process in turn is applied. You open an image and Topaz AI decides which of its tools to apply and at what strength. One of this software’s features, however, is the prospect of new AI models in the future to increase its capabilities. Even the installation is long-winded, as it downloads a procession of ‘AI models’ (I counted 58, I think). It could really get you out of a fix with unrepeatable family photos, for example, or wedding shots. The Recover Faces tool is remarkably good at making blurry faces look sharp and detailed.
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