One other thing Topaz Labs should consider, NO MORE DEVELOPEMENT OUTSIDE OF STUDIO! What’s the point if you have to keep working in and out of Studio to get your end result? The whole selling point of Topaz products and Studio was to have an integrated package with all the extras like masking, undo, modify, etc. When you open it in Studio it is darker than the original by at least 50%. The problem being if you go that route, when you open your file in Studio, it has a huge red tint. If you try to save the file for continued work in Studio and want to keep it RAW, then DNG is their recommended solution. Now what? Since it’s not integrated with Studio, I can’t run A.I Clear on it without first saving it. For example, I feed DeNoise a raw file (Nikon) and let it do it’s thing. DeNoise does a better job at cleaning up the noise then Clear does. I’ve been using the DeNoise before I use AI Clear. And the inconsistent interface, especially when it seems Studio is supposed to be the hub for all their new products, seem like just lazy design. I think most of their products are useful, but many overlap functionality and that makes it difficult to decide which you should buy. Topaz seems to have no coherent strategy. Others only have a button that switches between before and after (they all should probably offer both options). For example, some products allow a split screen view of the before and after adjustment image. Gigapixel.Īlso, their interface in inconsistent. The naming also is bizarrely inconsistent: DeNoise AI and Sharpen AI, but AI Clear and A.I. Or they are found in different menus of Studio. Some of their recent releases seem to be integrated into Studio, but others are not. Of course they also recently released Sharpen AI, but AI Clear also does sharpening. After using both, I think I prefer AI Clear as the results seem the same as DeNoise AI and the interface is easier. This is confusing, as it appears DeNoise AI is a replacement for AI Clear, which was new only a shot time ago.
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