JUST RELEASED: Topaz Photo AI 3.1.3 (2024)

A rebranded Topaz Photo AI 3.0 was released today!

Details from Topaz:

We’re excited to announce the release of Topaz Photo AI 3.0 today. Photo AI’s creative potential has been unlocked in this version, allowing the creation of your own workflows for the first time with presets, flexible ordering of enhancements, panel docking & collapsing, enabling RAW color and lighting adjustments and a standardized Topaz UI across all of our applications.

v3.0.0
Released April 11th, 2024

6X upscale of one of my AI renders:

Here’s a breakdown of what to look for in this update:

Presets
Save your commonly used filter combinations into a single stack, including the filter settings and selections. Presets will then appear in the enhancement menu so that you can reuse your favorite settings and selections across any of your photos with a single click. This will speed up the process of editing large batches of hundreds or thousands of photos at a time. You can also delete old presets by hovering over them in the enhancement menu.

Docking & Collapsing
You can now dock the floating control panel on the right side of the viewport for easy access, or undock it and move it to where you need on top of your working preview area.
The right panel is also now collapsible, making more space for viewing your image while editing. For maximum space, try undocking the control panel while in collapsible mode.

Reordering
You can now re-order and combine your enhancements in any order on the right panel, allowing you to more dynamically chain effects together. For example, you can now sharpen the entire image first before denoising the background and then sharpening again with just the subject. Changing the order of the filters will affect the way the output is processed, and this freedom will allow you to achieve results that otherwise were not possible within Photo AI.

RAW Balance Color & Adjust Lighting
On top of RAW Denoise, you are now able to adjust the color balance and lighting for RAW files inside Topaz Photo AI using our AI-based filters. This allows you to get the best quality possible out of your image straight from the camera and inside the application without having to make these adjustments in an external application even for RAW files.

Other Updates
On top of these exciting updates, both Face Recovery and Preserve Text can now be applied to the image multiple times, allowing you to control the strength of the effect on different subjects and areas of the image independently. We have also added other performance improvements and fixes under the hood. Take a look at the full changelog for more.

UI Refresh
Topaz Photo AI has been updated with a standardized Topaz UI framework, with new colors and icons coming to Topaz Labs apps for a unified, streamlined look.

What’s next
We much in store for Photo AI, including expansions to presets, editing and selection capabilities, improvements to the RAW workflow, more intelligent autopilot, even better sharpening, and more.

Changelog:
Refreshed user interface with Topaz UI style
Implemented drag and reorder enhancements
Implemented basic preset functionality
Implemented docking and undocking feature
Enabled Text Recovery to be added multiple times
Enabled Face Recovery to be added multiple times
Enabled Adjust lighting for RAW images
Enabled Balance color for RAW images
Fixed Adjust lighting crash on M3 with macOS 14.4 and above
Fixed switching models on Denoise not updating the preview
Fixed export output suffix not matching enhancements order
Added preference for RAW Adjust lighting strength
Added camera profile for Panasonic G9M2
Added noise profile for Sony ILCE-6700

There’s yet another important update to Photo AI which improves stability, performance, and issues with our popular Photoshop and Light Room Classic integrations.

In the prior release of 3.0.1 we improved memory usage problems which some users encountered with large batches of images, and in this release we have further improved results. You should now be able to process much larger batches of RAW images without degradations in performance.

Our plugin integration with Lightroom Classic and Photoshop automation have also received some important fixes. You can now export DNGs from Lightroom Classic again as long as the “Adjust Lighting” or “Balance Color” filters are not applied in the stack. With Photoshop automations, we also fixed an issue where file changes were not being saved on some devices.

Photo AI is getting better every day, and we won’t stop here.

There’s other important changes and optimizations under the hood in this release, such as window snapping for Windows devices.

v3.0.2
Released May 9th, 2024

Full changelog for version 3.0.2:

LrC will now export DNGs when processing RAWs without “Adjust Lighting” or “Balance Color”
Fixed a memory leak caused by large exports of RAW images
Fixed “Add to collections” feature for LrC sometimes not working on Mac
Fixed autopilot not applying to batch exports in some scenarios
Fixed PS Automate plugin not saving changes back to PS on some devices
Fixed PS Automate plugin looping when cancelling an export
Fixed the upscaling model selector not showing full names of models
Fixed images sometimes being skipped during export
Fixed switching images causing the wrong filters to be processed
Fixed RAW Denoise being added to invalid RAW images
Fixed context menu sometimes not opening
Fixed the shortcuts in preferences being horizontally draggable
Fixed invalid state when removing all enhancements on RAW images
Fixed incorrect font rendering on machines without the Inter font
Added support for window snapping on Windows
Adjusted PS dialogs on Mac and Windows
Updated Lensfun

This release for Photo AI v3.0.3 brings the application up to date with a number of important fixes and optimizations, alongside a new dynamic light mode.
With this release, we are further improving memory usage with additional optimizations and fixing color shift issues for the Nikon Z8.

In the last release we enabled exporting DNGs from our popular Lightroom Classic plugin, and in this release we also fixed an important related issue so that you can now copy DNG files in the LrC plugin instead of overwriting them.

We have also added Light and Dark mode to Photo AI, which is configurable or automatically set based on your system settings.

There’s more too - we have also updated the Autopilot for RAW Denoise to be more consistent and achieve better results out of the box for images with various ISO settings.

v3.0.3
Released May 30th, 2024

Photo shows a 20-year old non-DSLR digital image being treated for noise. Even the dead pixels were removed.

Full changelog for version 3.0.3:

Further improvements to memory usage with RAW files
Implemented light mode (including many UI/UX tweaks)
RAW Denoise default value strength and triggering scenario adjustments
Ask to copy DNG files in LrC instead of overwriting by default
Added grid selection controls for upscaling
Fixed color shift issue with the Nikon Z8
Fixed Nikon D800 baseline exposure for 320 ISO
Fixed an issue with LrC version < 6 failing
Fixed an issue with crashes on some Intel Xeon CPUs
Fixed Face Recovery selection not showing when hotkey is pressed
Fixed installer repair issues with custom install paths
Fixed an issue with Intel Macs downloading models repeatedly
Fixed issues with Mac full-screen mode
Fixed some menus not being wide enough on Windows
Automatic Lensfun Update

JUST ANNOUNCED: Photo AI is on sale ($20 off) through July 2.

Full changelog for version 3.0.4:
•Updated status indicator
•Other UI/X tweaks
•Fix crop, upscale to specific pixel dimensions, and face recovery causing disjointed face output
•Fix crop and upscale causing preview area to shrink
•Added version number to the title bar
•New frameless window implementation on Windows to fix black window area issue and allow hovering over the maximize button to show the snap options
•Lensfun Update

Ends in a few days: Save $20 off the latest Photo AI through 7/2.

Screenshots show "radical enhancements" of my early-2000s non-DLSR digital images using the Upscale feature, along with other minor adjustments.

TODAY is the last day for the current Topaz Photo AI sale (save $20).

v3.1.0

Released July 11th, 2024

This release of Photo AI includes:

New Autopilot Suggestions.
You can now take full control of Autopilot by opting in to provided suggestions. Autopilot will also now continue to suggest new enhancements to your image.

Smart Preview Rendering.
Ever noticed Photo AI rendering when it didn’t need to, such as when zooming in or when adjusting a slider? No more of that! By intelligently rendering the preview only when required, this version of Photo AI feels snappier than ever before.

Huge Preview & Masking Optimizations.
Optimizations under the hood make rendering, masking, and selection all much faster. You can now mask to your heart’s delight with performance that keeps up with your cursor. It’s so good that you’re going to want to try the Superpixel brush again.

Major Preserve Text quality improvements.
You’re now going to get better text recovery results than before when upscaling – now even rivaling Gigapixel’s Text & Shapes model.

Major Face Recovery quality improvements.
Dramatically improved results for face recovery when combined with other filters such as Adjust Lighting or Balance Color.

Screenshots show various subjects from older non-DLSR digital images being upscaled, along with various other enhancements.

Two new Photo AI updates this week! My screenshots show different sections of a small Stable Diffusion AI render being upscaled 6X with no other treatments.

Original:

v3.1.1
Released July 25th, 2024

Changelog

Added error for unsupported Sony Medium and Small compression files and prevent crash
Improve preview when using very high zoom
Enable preview capture in plugin modes
Add warning for multiple instances of an enhancement not working for recording PS actions
Disabled face recovery filter suggestion if face detection is turned off
Fix changing auto-selection in preferences changing the selection in suggestions
Fix various bugs with processing blocking selection
Fixed ghost face appearing when an image is imported after overwriting it
Fix AP filters re-added to an image when opening an image where they’ve been removed
Fix authenticating un-maximizing app window
Fix application window size resetting when minimizing and restoring
Prevent spacebar from minimizing application window
Fix show in finder/explorer opening incorrect image if same file is exported multiple times
Fix a crash from 3.1.0
Fix various issues related to “Close images after saving” setting
Fix upscale not counting as removed when calculating if modified from AP
Fix various batch processing issues
Update application header
Clicking custom scale now selects the scale text field
Fix various issues with status bar in preview
Fix some light mode issues
Fix spacebar to show original not working after switching AI model
Fix right panel menu not closing when clicking the 3-dot menu
Fix close menu behavior when hiding enhancement
Fix preset order being different in filmstrip vs right menu
Minor UI and text formatting improvements
Automatic Lensfun Update

v3.1.2
Released July 26th, 2024

Update: we released v3.1.2 to hotfix an issue with 3rd party plugins.

v3.1.3
Released August 8th, 2024

Changelog

•Fix selection brush being offset when feathering is on
•Fix shift clicking filters not keeping the enhancements list open
•Fix crash on exit for Photoshop
•Fix image cache crash on exit for plugins
•Fix preset modified blurb always being visible
•Update suffixes for enhancement names added on export
•Add suffix for Remove to exported file name
•Lensfun update