Canisdirus

But that 'everything' app is a real keeper isn't it.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

That is excellent!

LEWHITE7747 Loc: 33773

I just use auto in light room & Denoise. GreT results. Matt K does this.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

They normally have a great update price on Black Friday; worth waiting for! It was $29 for the bundle last year.

bwa

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

I use MasterSeeker instead of Everything, though I have both. I don't recall why I made the choice, but I did think MasterSeeker was better - at least for me. And ON1 (2022.5, latest update) certainly is better than Topaz.

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City

chasgroh Loc: Buena Park, CA

...how "better?" Have you ran empirical tests between the two? Or is it testing done by others? I have On1 (which I use for infrared mostly) *and* Topaz (in which I do alot of work out of LR/P)...have yet to compare as I'm into my personal workflow, hard to break!

Klickitatdave Loc: Seattle Washington

[quote=dpullum]My Topaz AI update license ends at the end of this month... I will debate renewing... confronted with a question I have asked myself many times even before AI, "can it get better, and is great good enough... how much better can it get?"

I faced the same question because my Topaz Ai update licenses ended recently. Renew or not to renew, that was the question. Here was my solution since updating the licenses for every Topaz program would have cost $260+. So, I found out that Topaz has a sale bundling Gigapixel AI, Sharpen AI and Denoise AI for $159.99 until August 12th. So I found a discount coupon on line that would work which lowered the cost significantly, but when I went to check out it recognized me as being a current customer and the "Upgrade" cost with the coupon dropped to around $79. They even threw in AI Mask and some other perks. Since my experience has been that they do improve their products fairly regularly I believe that "Upgrading" the software was a good buy for $79. The sale ends on August 12th so if you are interested keep this in mind.

11bravo

Decades ago, I remember talking with my Dad. He said he was always so busy. I said "How can you be busy? You're retired". Now being retired myself, I know what he means. I now have the time to do what I want, the time to research how to do something correctly (e.g. repair something rather than race to fix on a weekend), and the time to enjoy life. Bored? Never.

Everything, I use that program multiple times a day, one of the first things I install on a computer.

AzYooper Loc: Sun Lakes AZ (Almost Phoenix)

There is a new beta version of the latest Topaz product called Topaz Studio AI, that incorporates Denoise AI, Sharpen AI and Gigapixel AI into one super program. I tried it last night and it is the best thing to come along in a long time. Worth the annual fee. It is an amazing upgrade. Check it out. There are a couple of videos on YouTube by Dave Kelley you may find of interest to help you decide.

SteveInConverse Loc: South Texas

Ive been using Topaz Sharpen and Denoise and I'm amazed at the end results. I've already figured out you need to dial it back a bit as it will over sharpen if you aren't careful.

SteveInConverse Loc: South Texas

I'm "retired" too, but I still have to work. I have a very easy job and it pays pretty good. I retired in 15 from almost 25 years in law enforcement and corrections. I do security now. Photography is my outlet and my sanity check. Love it!

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

[quote=Klickitatdave]

Never buy the upgrades individually. They always offer a bundle price that covers all you Topaz stuff. I think it’s usually $99 and you hit a sale. I think I’ll be due in a couple of months. I’ll probably renew even though I’ve started using DxO Pure Raw for most noise reduction.

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

For the past several years I constantly have been evaluating and re-evaluating post processing software, both that designed for individual property adjustment and as packaged deals. I own or have owned a number of the major players, as well as several less well-known pretenders who have touted highly their product. For some time, I felt that there was no one product which was best at everything, but that for optimum results one had to use several of the programs then available, each for its individual strength. Some of the programs, I bought, but most offered trials, usually for 30 days. I did have one trial program which for some reason has continued to work without watermark or any problem. That is Topaz DeNoise 6 (64 bit), which was discontinued when they came out with their AI programs. In continued tests, I found DeNoise 6 to be better in almost all cases than the next several generations of their AI, and the best denoise program available – vs all the major players. I have owned and used ON1 for several years, and considered it to be close to, or as good as, the other majors – except in the denoise area. ON1 took a significant step ahead when they came out with their AI denoise version, but for a while it fell short in the correction of jpeg images. They since have remedied that, and its performance is the best of anything I have tried (but which does not include the latest Topaz offering). In that the latest update of ON1 2022.5 is the best post processing software – in all respects – available, and since I couldn’t afford the costly Topaz software anyway, I now will not even waste the time to look at it, As a side note, I have almost no noise problems to correct, which makes my decision even easier. In evaluating the performance of denoise programs, I would scour the Internet for examples of noisy images, and work primarily with those. In no case did I use AI software as the be-all, end-all correction, but as a starting point, just as I would use presets – if I were to use them – which I very seldom do. I now have determined, to my satisfaction, that ON1 Photo RAW 2022.5, latest update, is the very best post processing software available in all areas, the easiest to learn and use, the best by far in data management, the most logical in workflow, and the equivalent, at least, of any with respect to support (they solicit owner suggestions and answer questions on a very timely basis) and good training videos. It provides all this in one program, without the requirement of jumping back and forth between programs. As a result of all the foregoing, I now use ON1 only, especially on RAW, but also on jpg, and will not be wasting my time with anything else!

Sorry for the length of this post, but as I went along, I decided that as long as I was answering the question, I should answer it completely.

Loren – in Beautiful Baguio City

Canisdirus

This is only the beginning.

Free hand art work is already under the thumb of AI.

Photography won't be far behind.

The images shown are made by AI using only a few prompts from the user...who then adds more prompts once the results come back...and so on until...very quickly...voila.

pecohen Loc: Central Maine

I looked at the Topaz site but did not find it. Can you provide a link?