DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

I bought the Topaz Labs Sharpen AI/Gigapixel AI/Denoise AI bundle which is on sale this week. The products aren't particularly hard to use, but I feel like there's more there than I've discovered so far. On the Topaz web site, there's very little in the way of tutorials and no written manuals. On Amazon, there's zero books on Topaz products. On YouTube, there's a handful of demos and brief tutorials. I know that Matt Kloskowski has an instructional series for sale. So, if you use these products, did you have a training source that you liked?

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

I like Anthony Morganti https://www.youtube.com/c/AnthonyMorgantiPhotographer take a look and see what you think

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Morganti and Kloskowski are both excellent, but Morganti is free.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Kloskowski has been excellent for a couple years.

tcthome Loc: NJ

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEcP2Oec0caHz23aKGGOayw

Try this guys channel. I watched a couple of videos before & after purchasing Denoise & Sharpen. I usually just try the different setting s & once in a while try tweaking the sliders Or masking. Never used the gigapixel software but he probably covers it.

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

. . . . And now, a drink from the fire hose!

I have listed these Topaz Products recomendations in order of importance to me.
Topaz workflow: 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

When I installed the last update of Topaz Sharpen AI the default selection for "Allowed Memory Consumption" for the program was set to "Medium". To change this setting to "High" do the following:
1. Open the program, go to the top left, and under "File", select Preferences.
2. Go to the bottom and under "Performance" select "AI Processor" and select either "CPU" or your "Installed Graphics Card".
2. Next, while still in "Performance" select "Allowed Memory Consumption", click on it and select "High". My program installed with the default set at "Medium".

How to make Topaz Products Run Faster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GraqwH2YYJ4
Start at about 1:40 min. into the video.

Contact Topaz Tech Support
Topaz Help: https://help.topazlabs.com/hc/en-us
Topaz Help Center: https://help.topazlabs.com/hc/en-us/requests/newFinally, go to this site(s) for current Topaz Products discount codes.

FREE: Tutorials For Topaz Products ~ Always Look for the Latest Revision for your program

Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=topaz+tutorials+on+youtube
Jim Nix Topaz Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Jim+Nix+topaz
David Kelly Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dave+kelly+topaz

Topaz Studio 2 User Guide: https://guide.topazlabs.com/studio2/

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jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Take a look here.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=topaz+tutorials

pithydoug Loc: Catskill Mountains, NY

Totally agree and I like Auntknee's down to earth learning sessions. He never tries to be prefect in every session and shows mistakes and recovery. Doubly educational. If you get hooked up to his web page you get a weekly Email showing two to three videos of various products plus some words of wisdom about photography in general. He is very quick to post a video when new functions are added. Really helpful with the new LR masking function under tools.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

The long webinars are great seditives, be sure the recliner is in the tilt back position. Short webinars get to the point and are informative.

The failure of most of the instructional webinars is that they fail to analyze the photo prior to starting work. For the pros this is perhaps intuitive but for most, it is best to look and decide what the crop should be to tell the story and what needs to be done regarding brightness, color, and other simple tools, after that then we apply the miracle AI cures.

The three Topaz AI tools are well discussed in brief form in the workflow discussion:
https://learn.topazlabs.com/wildlife-photo-editing-improvements-made-easy-with-denoise-ai-sharpen-ai-and-gigapixel-ai/

From that discussion, I learned something new to me: "Sharpen AI’s new Auto Subject detection made it very easy to quickly isolate exactly where sharpening should be applied."

From historic Topaz webinars, the most useful two items learned... the experts do not start by analyzing and deciding what to do before fiddling with the tools;

1. First step in an image modification is to analyze and decide what is needed and what the end-use will be.
2. One Topaz presenter gave great advice, slide the sliders far right one at a time and back off to an acceptable point... then a tad more so that the image will not appear cooked.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Exhaust the free options before paying another penny on how-to training.

photostephen

I agree, The Joy of Editing by Dave Kelly is an excellent resource for Topaz products and how to use them. Dave gives real world examples which are both informative and easy to follow.
On Fridays, this channel is dedicated to TK Panels. The TK panels are very affordable and once you start to use them (after following Dave Kelly's tutorials) you will wonder how you lived without them.

photodoc16

UTMike,
Although Morganti is free, you should make a donation to him so that he can make more videos and still let you see his videos for free.
Photodoc16

Jsykes

https://mattk.com/deep-dive-topaz/

Matt K's 15% discount on Topaz Black Friday bundle pricing ($99) enables you to purchase Klowkoski's Topaz training video (down to $29.99) for a net ~ $15.

Excellent advice on workflow re when to introduce which contradicts Topaz view. He indicates that Noise A1 is the best of the two software solutions (as it also provides Sharpness adjustments) but at a standalone price ~$60 it is only $40 cheaper than the Noise, Sharpening and Gigapixel bundle currently on sale.

Used for the first time yesterday and the results were terrific.... Noise A1 followed by further Sharpness A1 adjustments