Cedar Waxwing Topaz Editing: I took this back in April 2015 with a Canon 5DM3 and Tamron 100-600mm @ 600mm. I decided to re-edit the underexposed, underwhelming RAW photo with a...

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Dec 5, 2020 20:01:05 #

Fullframe Loc: Bucks County, Pennsylvania

I took this back in April 2015 with a Canon 5DM3 and Tamron 100-600mm @ 600mm.

I decided to re-edit the underexposed, underwhelming RAW photo with a healthy crop, then run it through Topaz Denoise and then Topaz Gigapixel to upsize the cropped photo. Took all but two minutes.

What do you think?

Original (22MP)
Original (22MP)...

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Original Cropped (3.4MP)
Original Cropped (3.4MP)...

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Crop edited for exposure and upsize 2x (13.6MP)

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Crop edited for exposure and upsize 4x (54.2MP)

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Dec 5, 2020 21:21:46 #

LESTAHL Loc: Colorado

Excellent!

Dec 6, 2020 08:22:56 #

David Martin Loc: Cary, NC

Great work. Amazing what can often be salvaged with modern technology if the original photo was shot in RAW.

Dec 6, 2020 08:37:22 #

L-Fox

Dec 6, 2020 08:56:20 #

WDCash Loc: Milford, Delaware, USA

Fullframe wrote:

Very nice.
I like how you did it in steps.
Is this because megapixel suggests noore then x6 bump?

Dec 6, 2020 08:59:28 #

bajadreamer Loc: Baja California Sur

Nicely done. Topaz has some amazing products now. I spent the first 3 months of the "time of COVID" this spring going back and re-editing over 1000 of my old photos. David Martin was correct in his statement about saving your RAW or TIFF files. Who knows what the future holds for software tools?

Dec 6, 2020 09:04:21 #

Ourspolair

Thanks for sharing the salvaging steps. You did a great job. Please stay well and keep on sharing.

Dec 6, 2020 09:23:00 #

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

WDCash wrote:

Very nice.
I like how you did it in steps.
Is this because megapixel suggests noore then x6 bump?

Please pardon me.
I am not trying to hijack the thread, however, these are the steps that Topaz recommends: https://topazlabs.com/the-ultimate-workflow-for-topaz-labs-ai-software/?utm_source=Topaz+Updates&utm_campaign=8c480bdca3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_11_19_04_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5e4dd8652a-8c480bdca3-92602881&mc_cid=8c480bdca3&mc_eid=c9be7297b0

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Dec 6, 2020 09:32:37 #

Dr J Loc: NE Florida

IMPRESSIVE!

Dec 6, 2020 10:36:06 #

Fullframe Loc: Bucks County, Pennsylvania

WDCash wrote:

Very nice.
I like how you did it in steps.
Is this because megapixel suggests noore then x6 bump?

You can choose the bump you want in gigapix ai. I chose 2x and 4x to create the 13mp & 54mp images respectively. The multiplier is applied to both the long and short sides of the cropped original.

Dec 6, 2020 10:36:57 #

phv Loc: Goleta, California

Lovely!

Dec 6, 2020 10:47:53 #

Fullframe Loc: Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Jimmy T wrote:

Please pardon me. br I am not trying to hijack the... (show quote)

Thanks Jimmy. That's basically what I did, except I didn't need alot of those steps. I do my adjustments in LR and have the Topaz products plugged into light room.

So I brought the raw into LR, then took it over to Denoise ai, then cropped the denoised TIFF in LR, then adjusted for exposure, etc. in LR, then brought over the adjusted denoised TIFF to gigapixel ai for upres, then made the resulting denoised and gigapixeled tiff into a jpeg through LR export.

To make things go ultra fast I kept the Topaz processing on auto.

Sometimes I process my RAWs through Capture One, which then is a slightly different flow.

Dec 6, 2020 14:11:43 #