Topaz Photo AI - Super Focus Beta

Scott Whaley

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Has anyone played around with the new super focus beta feature in Topaz Photo AI? I just did and it is really neat. Here is a before and after shot of a painted dog in South Africa. I cropped these photos with the cropping tool in Windows 11, so the quality won't be great. I used the medium settings on the photo. I will have to play around with it to get used to it.

1. The original photo
Painted Dog Original.jpg


2. Photo using the Super focus beta

Painted Dog - Super Focus Beta.jpg
 
All a matter of taste. Too bad about fake detail enhancement. Not a fan, sorry.
 
I have occasionally used the sharpen component of Topaz. Frankly, for what I shoot, it generates too many artifacts. I find it will turn a wrinkle in to a scar. Or a crease in to an eyebrow. I use the Upscale, Recover Face, and Denoise very frequently though--I find it's invaluable at those things.
 
That's to funny. Hair looks like quills from a porcupine.
 
I'm glad to finally see some others who feel as I do about the Topaz tools. I use Photo AI for minor sharpening of hi-res photos that are a little soft, and for that it can give satisfactory results, but mostly I agree with JoeW and Woolsocks above. Too many artifacts and the re-created details just don't do much for me. The only time a photo can be focused is when you use the camera's lens to do it. After that, post-process "focusing" is simply a matter of redrawing new details over the original. It's no longer a photo, but a computer illustration.
 
I have Topaz PhotoAI, DdeNoiseAI, and SharpenAI. Of the three, I use DeNoise the most. In fact, I use it on almost every photo I process.
PhotoAI and I do not get along. It seems that I can do better myself using the other programs, that using PhotoAI.

For those that don't like the results, I'll mention a few things.

You can run it more than once on a photo.
Don't try to do it all in one step. Lower the setting and run it more than once.

Use a duplicate layer so you can decrease the opacity of the Topazes layer.

Another way to decrease what you did in Photoshop, under the Edit tab, forth item, Fade.
That will Fade the last thing you did to the photo.

Try a couple of these, it make help make your photos a little more to your liking.
 
I was a fan of the Topaz products, but now they want too much for Photo AI. I'm on the fence about Gigapixel AI. I liked their Denoise and Sharpening products, but they are no longer updating them, obviously, and the Sharpen product is saving thumbnails instead of the full sized image. Given that, it did bring out some detail on they hyena, but lost other detail.
 

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