If you could do a comparison between Photo AI and Gigapixel, that would be great. I'd be interested in comparing both the results and the speed. Photo AI can be glacial on my Windoze machine.
I paid a significant amount of money originally to purchase the then available bundles of the individual photo products a couple of years ago - Sharpen AI, DeNoise AI, Gigapixel, Mask AI, Studio AI, etc and the Video Enhance AI. Soon after, they came up with the revamped Video AI and Photo AI claiming them to be superior products and required me to pay upgrade prices. Video AI fell short of the original by not having side by side comparisons functionality of multiple models for me to see which was a better version. I suspected the same when their upgrades stopped for Gigapixel. I kept getting promo emails to upgrade at discount prices during Black Friday and Boxing Day sales. Although the products are revamped, I expect that software will have many bug fix upgrades to bring it back to stable levels, and reintroduce the missing functionalities. As per several similar comments below, so, unless someone can firmly attest to this version being superior in its first release compared to the Photo AI I had to repurchase, I will not upgrade due to an impulsive regretful decision
Thanks for your review of Gigapixel AI 7. I recently captured a dim church interior of the Ottawa Notre Dame Cathedral hand held at 14,400 ISO at 24mp with Nikon Z6ii at 1/30sec. and F11. Later I used Gigapixel AI 6.2 (previous version to 7), and used the 6x enhancement feature which cleaned up the edges and curves by sharpening edges and also reduced noise, and the results were great. I see that version 7 now at version 7.4 has a few more features than 6.2, not sure if I need to upgrade yet, but I love the end result of my image, which Flickr put it on their Explore page as an example of a great photo. Thanks to Gigapixel for handling a hand held image at 14,400 iso, plus my composition was pretty good I think also. Wanted to share this, and thanks for your review using 7. I felt going up to 6x scale resolved more fine details in edges in the Church interior photo from the high ISO, then I could reduce size again as needed for posting on Flickr. The full frame sensor helped keep digital noise minimal and Gigapixel removed most of the noise. Cheers!
Thanks Dave. I have a licence for the big 3 of Topaz and got Photo AI for free. And now the update. Topaz make a great job. I use Gigapixel, Denoise and Sharpen AI nearly every day in Photoshop. Beside Nik 6, Luminar neo and TK9 my workspace for creating my kind of pictures.
@robertolazary2807 Did you get Photo AI for free because you have the "big 3?" I have Gigapixel, Sharpen, and Denoise also. Is it possible I can get Photo AI for free also?
Thanks for this interesting information and demo. I have gotten used to using Photo AI, so I'm wondering how it compares. AI upsizing has allowed me to use some of my older, lower resolution cameras, so this is a topic of great interest to me. Again, thanks!
I got mine. Not happy. Can’t download it. Company says problems downloading on Windows platform is a “known issue”? Really, then why did you release it? It’s been several days now with now tech support fix.
I'd love to see a comparison between version 6 and version 7 of Gigapixel as well, if that's possible. I have 6 and I'm not sure if it's worth upgrading or not....hm.
Hey Dave, One of the features of the old version of giga pixel is the ability to see a comparison view of the different models at the same time. PhotoAI doesnt appear to have that option, and now it looks as if this newer version of gigapixel is missing it as well. Any good reasion why they would remove that? or am I missing how or where to view the image that way? Thanks!
It looks like Gigapixel will remain its own app, but Sharpen AI and DeNoise is being integrated into Photo AI which I suspect will be their version of something like Luminar or Photolab, which is a bit of a shame for us who use Adobe and aren't realy looking to replace any of the tools we have and would like specific tools for specific tasks. My guess though is they will take the model like DXO and include the upscaling tech as they do now in Photo AI and still keep Gigapixel AI updated but it may be that Photo AI gets the latest upscaling tech and then it flows down to Gigapixel (perhaps a subset of it) later on to entice those who want the latest and greatest to upgrade to Photo AI on a subscription.
TOPAZ GIGAPIXEL AI 7 does not work - have tried for 3 hours to install this and make it work to no avail. There doesn't seem to be a way to get a refund.
Great vid, Dave. In preferences , should you set it to use your particular card or will auto detect it. Fo example I have Nvidia 3060 ti. It does do better with dedicated card , than CPU, doesn't it? Thannx
Have been using AI Giga and Photo for some time, with a different workflow than yours, and have to say the 7 upgrade is very well worth it! Topaz has done it again... we just had to be patient for the upgrade. Congrats Topaz!
I currently have a top of the line M1 iPad Pro but if I could get topaz gigapixel on an iPad I would be more than willing to step up to the latest and greatest iPad Pro. It seems you automatically think a tablet doesn’t have enough stuff to run your program but please check out the latest iPad pro’s. Thank you.
I would also like to know why the 4-panel comparison option was removed. Dave, in your example, can you be confident that using a different model wouldn't do a better job? In using earlier versions of Gigapixel, I found that the auto-recommended model and settings did not always give the best results. Without the comparison option, it will take longer to run each model individually and much harder to decide which model is doing a better job. Thank you for doing this video. I haven't decided if upgrading to 7 is worth losing the comparison option I enjoy now.
Hi Dave, thank you very much for your very interesting videos. I would be interested in a comparison between the last and the new version of Gigapixel as well. Also, it would be very interesting to know how TOPAZ is going to position the 3 products (Sharpen AI, Gigapixel AI, DeNoise AI) vs Photo AI. Although I have licensed all 4 products I am only using Photo AI because it is more convenient. With warm regards from Germany, Andreas
So after buying the bundle and then purchasing Photo AI I now have to pay for an upgrade to Gigapixel? I appreciate Dave and all of the great demo's and tutorial he gives but the real question is how does this compare with Photo AI and is Topaz not going with al all in one product? It's kind of confusing to be honest.
Great information. FYI I noticed that Topaz is selling upgrade protection for GigaPixel. But not for Sharpen AI or deNoise AI. I am reading the tea leaves here.
Thanks Dave ~ Easy enough to do a comparison between TGP and TAI products, but I think lots of folks have this question and might not have both products, so would be helpful to see a comparison. Question - in your experience if you upscale beyond the original pixel size do you start to loose image quality?
How well would this work for something like a low-res logo? We work with companies all the time that can't seem to find a high res version of their logo for us to use in marketing, and if this could be a stop-gap while they hunt that logo down that would be huge.
The disadvantage is that when you want to install version 7, version 6 is uninstalled. I would like to keep both versions Before I thought that Gigapixel version 6 worked better than Photo AI and that's why I preferred to use GP6. Now that I got used to Photo AI and all its functions such as mask, etc. it seems to me that Gigapixel 7 is no longer necessary and they would have to work a lot to add more functions.
great video. problem with topaz is they started with plugins, then understood everybody does a "studio" and they did studio 1 and 2, then came back to plugins to have more power and flexibility and then made topaz photo ai to compete with ON1, NEO,... integrating all modules in one interface and now, again, they still improve separate plugins, better than photo ai. very confusing company going forth and back all the time...
This isn't much help unless you have a comparison between the previous version and the new one they could be totally the same. Unless the have a trial version we can test with ?
I have made a comparison video after this video. Here is the link: TOPAZ PHOTO AI and TOPAZ GIGAPIXEL AI (Upscaling and Enhancing Comparison) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m5ojB2gNdIw.html
gigapixel is my favorite. But I can only get 2 screens rather than 4. Hoping I just haven't found the way to see the 4 choices on a single screen yet. Not sure I will be using it if I can't. I also have sharpen and Denoise. They don't do enough to care about. :(
$79 for this? I'm not sure this is really worth the upgrade. I think Gigapixel is better at upscaling than Photo AI. You can batch process with Gigapixel, but not Photo AI. But like you said, it's probably not worthwhile to have both. Thanks for the video. You saved me $79.
You can batch process with Photo Ai - I do it all the time. If launching from LR you need to make sure Autosync is on then select a range of images and launch. Or you can do a batch if you are using as stand alone
Another great vid - you explain things so well. I have several Topaz products, but this latest one downloaded and installed OK....but it won't open!! All my other Topaz programs open OK but not this latest G7. I uninstalled the original and rebooted but still no joy. I've messaged Topaz about it
dangit... are these guys going to leapfrog their own product line again? I used gigapixel, then ditched it for PhotoAI when they quit innovating, and if they repop Gigapixel and abandon PhotoAI I'm going to be disappointed.
So that's what "first look" means. Failure to produce an image convincing enough that it does a "great job". Is that a joke? For the people's requested comparison I hope you can come back down to earth and do a real life test. - And here's a wild idea: Use publicly available photos, share the links, then upscale them and share the results so we can download them and judge for ourselves.
When you demonstrate the supposedly best software available for enlarging images, how come you just demonstrate a tiny bit more than Photoshop and Lightroom can do by themselves? Why not make a 6X enlargement to see what it really can do with a low resolution image? Personally I have been using this software for ages, and I have printed images up to 125x250 cm (!!) from a HDR image from Canon 5D Mk III. Demonstrate doubling the pixels is - in my opinion - worthless, since this software is supposed to make 6X enlargements. Also, you mentioned that you didn't think Gigapixel was really needed if you did have Photo AI. In my opinion, that's wrong. If you just upscale 2X or 2.5X, OK - but if you need more than that, I feel Gigapixel has more to give, more adjustments and so on. Just to mention it, I would still prefer Denoise and Sharpen as single programs as well, since I do have more control with those. Just my 5 cents... Thank you for your videos - I have seen them all, I believe :) Do you know if Topaz has any plans of reintroduce older software like Topaz Simplify and Impression? Personally I feel these were some great pieces of software that really did their job :)
