Topaz offers trials so there is no need to risk your hard earned money until you see what it does with your own eyes. If you have never tried it, I recommend considering it for your photo restoration arsenal. If you tried Gigapixel AI before and weren't all that impressed or haven't upgraded, give it a try or trial again. Sure, it's making up data, but it's somehow also getting it right. Still, when used with a little moderation the results are stunning.Ĭonsider this a great tool to blow up the picture, use machine learning to fill in detail, and then reduce image size again so it's more appropriate for display on high resolution screens or photo reprints. In another, eyes seemed to be looking in two directions a little. In one shot where I really cranked up the AI, an older female relative of the deceased ended up looking like a very ugly man in drag (yikes!). Sure, you can still overdo the settings if you turn it up to 11. Topaz Gigapixel AI did an amazing job on some pretty blurry pictures I scanned from old 4" snapshots at 600dpi then ran through Gigapixel. Since I was dealing with people I've known most of my life, my bar for accuracy in facial reconstruction was very high. For those not familiar with the subject the work may look acceptable, but it may be hideous to those familiar with the person since our brains are very attuned to subtle facial cues and immediately see something is off. In particular, the facial reconstruction is pretty amazing.Īs you may know, reconstructing faces can be challenging. I have to say the product is much improved.
A free update to Gigapixel was available to me since I had purchased it a while back, so I ran the update. Since the low resolution image was a result of algorithmic deterioration, the ML algorithms did a better job reversing the process on those than real-world scans and source materials.įor this project, I had some desirable photos that were just too blurry. My opinion was that, for their demos, Topaz may have taken high res originals and made them low resolution through downsizing and JPG compression, then used those as their source material to have the machine learning software make a high resolution result.
I bought it because their demo was amazing but, in practice, I found it did not work as well on actual low resolution photos I had, but read on. A family member recently passed and I was working with a lot of old blurry family photos, sometimes damaged, to assemble a memorial photo collage of their life.Ī few years ago, I bought Topaz Gigapixel AI. I'm a photo restorer and photography enthusiast who uses Photoshop and related 3rd party plugins.
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