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I'm very impressed with the "Topaz Sharpen AI"
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Jun 25, 2021 23:14:15   #
KTJohnson Loc: Northern Michigan
 
WOW! Thanks for sharing this. I am definitely impressed.

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Jun 26, 2021 10:43:48   #
Davethehiker Loc: South West Pennsylvania
 
JRiepe wrote:
In Luminar AI the sharp and clear template will sharpen as well or almost as well as Topaz in a fraction of the time. I use both. Luminar was my last step in processing but now I run my images through Luminar before Topaz because by doing that Topaz has little to nothing to correct cutting down on the processing time.


I'm not familiar with Luminar. It's true that Topaz takes some time to do its magic on my old 2013 era MacBook. I hope to address that this summer when Apple comes out with next generation of the 16 inch MaxBook Pro.

It's great that we have so many competing alternatives.

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Jun 27, 2021 20:03:04   #
Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California
 
Davethehiker wrote:
I took the attached image near the Henry Clay Frick mansion in Pittsburgh PA, back in July of 2008. I had my first digital SLR with me. It was a Sony α100, the first digital single-lens reflex camera marketed by Sony in 2006. It is the successor to the previous Konica Minolta DSLR models through Sony's purchase of the Konica Minolta camera division. This was not a full frame camera and had a 10 MP sensor. I was using a rebranded 100mm Minolta FF macro lens on it when I took the attached photo of a bee in the garden by the Frick Mansion. Today you can buy this camera on e-Bay for about $100.

I’m attaching two versions of the same photo. The first one was as taken years ago:


While not a bad photo for the time, tonight I pulled up that old photo and applied some modern software adjustments to it. Namely I used “Topaz Sharpener AI” "Too soft" option and a little NIK filters. The results are the image below:


I find it remarkable how much sharper the flower and bee appears the second image appears to be!

Please take the time to Download the images to see the difference,
I took the attached image near the Henry Clay Fric... (show quote)

Very impressive. The first image was nice, but the second image was outstanding.

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Jun 28, 2021 08:40:34   #
Davethehiker Loc: South West Pennsylvania
 
Ballard wrote:
Very impressive. The first image was nice, but the second image was outstanding.


I just ran Topaz Sharpener on another old Sony A900 camera and I think it was my Sony 70-300 f/4.5-5.6 G SSM lens set to 200mm. I'm just going to post the final image this time, but trust me Topaz recovered all kinds of detail in the fur that was not visible in the original photo. Topaz Sharpener likes to have a RAW file to work with. The bee was done with a Sony RAW but this little deer was done from DNG made in DxO PhotoLab.


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