Topaz Photo AI vs. Topaz DeNoise/Sharpen/Gigapixel - Which One Should You Buy? 

Just the comparison video I was looking for. Thank you! 👍

Just what I needed to see!!! Thank you for the great comparison video.

The video I was hoping to find!! THANK YOU!!

This was really informative, I’m just starting out with photography and editing. Thank you

Just got the bundle through your link. Thank you.

Great review! I have all the products reviewed and agree with your assessment.

Amazing Channel !! THANKS For the info !!

Informative!! Thankyou!!.

Lol just the video I was looking for! Thanks for posting 2 hours ago 😂

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 📷 *Overview of Topaz Photo AI* - The presenter introduces the topic of Topaz Photo AI and emphasizes that the video is not sponsored. - Discusses having a discount code but expresses genuine preference for Topaz software. - Recommends viewers to hold off on purchasing Topaz Photo AI and consider other options. 01:24 🔄 *Comparison with Image Quality Bundle* - Advises viewers to consider the Image Quality Bundle (Denoise, Sharpen, Gigapixel) instead of Topaz Photo AI. - Highlights that the bundle is often priced similarly to Topaz Photo AI. - Stresses the presenter's realization that older Topaz products are preferred for certain reasons. 02:22 🎨 *Comparison of Topaz Photo AI with Denoise AI* - Demonstrates the differences between Topaz Photo AI and Denoise AI. - Emphasizes the additional options and controls available in Denoise AI for noise removal. - Points out the importance of the Comparison View feature in Denoise AI. 05:21 🔍 *Comparison of Topaz Photo AI with Sharpen AI* - Compares Topaz Photo AI with Sharpen AI, focusing on sharpening capabilities. - Highlights the model selection options and the ability to refine settings in Sharpen AI. - Emphasizes the importance of having a Comparison View to assess different results simultaneously. 08:23 🖼️ *Comparison of Topaz Photo AI with Gigapixel AI* - Compares Topaz Photo AI with Gigapixel AI, discussing features like resolution enhancement and face recovery. - Acknowledges that Gigapixel AI may have fewer features but emphasizes its advanced options for upscaling. - Suggests that Gigapixel AI is more advanced in certain aspects compared to Topaz Photo AI. 10:58 💡 *Final Recommendations* - Advises users based on their preferences: Topaz Photo AI for an all-in-one solution or Image Quality Bundle for more control. - Recommends getting the bundle if users are willing to spend time fine-tuning settings for better results. - Stresses the importance of choosing the software based on individual needs and preferences. Made with HARPA AI

Excellent video. This perfectly addressed my question about Gigapixel AI vs Photo AI, for sizing for prints. I clicked on your link below but didnt see any discount applied for Gigapixel. Is that discount no longer available?

I have Denoise and Sharpen and want to find out of buying Photo AI was a good choice, now I know that I don't have to buy it :-) I even got the update to Denoise 3.7 for free from Topaz just today, great service! ( I owned 3.3.4). Thanks for the video!

thank you so much!

Thank you so much! Dry informative!

Excellent video! Answered something I couldn't really find anywhere else!

Very helpful video Austin. Especially the tip - I don't know why I didn't think of it myself - of using the four comparison windows setup, after choosing the best initial auto results for the various models, and then adjusting the other three set also to that model manually. I have been using the Image Suite from Topaz for about a year or more now and love it and would not want to have to live without them. As you stated, I also find that I am able to get more precise and finer, higher quality results using the three independently. I must say that initially, I was not particularly impressed by photo AI but it is improving. I haven't noticed it causing any color shifting as somebody here commented either. I just tend to find that if I really, really want an image to be perfect, I have to use the other three individually. Personally, if Topaz deep sixed the Image Suite, at least at this point with the limited flexibility that photo AI gives us in terms of being able to manually adjust things as we do in the standalone Image Suite, I would be very upset. Perhaps, if ultimately they are able to actually truly combine the same features maybe on an advanced setting within photo AI for those who want to use them that we now enjoy with denoise, sharpen and gigapixel? Leaving, as a choice, the simple interface being the opening screen or the one that you can choose to default to, that might be the way I would think it should go. Incorporating a professional level interface that allows you to access all their controls we currently have in the three separate programs. Now, THAT would be dynamite! But, as it stands right now I don't default to, go to photo AI because I just know that it's fine for most things if I'm not really terribly quality conscious about something nor have grand aspirations for it but, I really wouldn't trust it for serious work. Here's a tip that you and your viewers may find useful. I got the idea - well actually I had already done this - from Dave Kelly at The Joy of Editing where he says that sometimes, if you run an image through the De noise twice it will markedly improve it over what it did the first time. I have found this be absolutely true. I've also found that by running an image I've already run through variously with the other programs in the suite a second time through them? They too can result in an even better result. Assuming you don't add artifacts in the process. Long story short Topaz, in my opinion, is the bomb as far as I'm concerned when it comes to this kind of image processing software. And, I have subscribed to your network now and I look forward to more of your videos. You're one of the four people now that I have subscribed to re Photoshop;the other three being Anthony Morganti, Unmesh Dida of PixImperfect and Dave Kelly. They're the tops, the cream of the crop as far as I'm concerned but now, I've got another person to turn to - you! Keep up the good work. Because, we inquiring minds want to know!

Your work is great. I purchased the three Sharpen-DeNoise-Gigapixel bundle. However, I am confused as to what is the best way to process one photography in each option? Do you have a video on this? On Topaz AI it looks like you ca all three things in one app, but not with the older bundle.

Hey there. I'm looking at Topaz and just viewed your video - very nice and a great help. One thing I havent' see or heard anywhere, can you apply / overlay multiple Topaz products? Can you first Denice, then sharpen and then use Gigapixel once you want to print? Have I just failed to register this if someone has said? Thank you for your help!

Thanks! I'm getting the black friday bundle that contains all the 3 + photo ai for $200. was wondering if I should get this or the photo ai + video ai for $240. Thanks for the video!

I've been testing Sharpen AI and Photo AI on my personal photos. For me both work great, but Photo AI has a HUGE problem: it also changes the colors of my pictures, and I hate that. I get that is a "quick and easy" way for casual users to skip the use of some editing software. But I imagine that would be a deal breaker for real Pro Photographers. 😢

I'm with you. Prefer the older products.

I am new to all of this. I have dxo pure raw 3 and I think it works great. My question is do I need these? If I purchase one, which one should it be? And if I purchased the bundle, which software do you run the photo through first? Thank you!

Yes very helpful.

subbed thank you

Hey, I make textile print designs using existing images from my hand- painted artworks put together. All paintings images are taken from my iPhone but vary in sharpness and size. looking for a software that could help me with sharpening parts of the completed designs (or the full designs) to be hi-res and print-ready for scaves etc. Which software do you recommend?

If you get the three individual Programs, do you have to Denoise, save then open it in gigapixel, then move on to the next? Or is there an easy way to do all 3 if you own all three programs?

I still own the 2020 version of the old once. Been kind out out of processing so im a bit behind. Wonder if its even needed to upgrade.

I agree the discrete products are superior in almost every way to Photo AI. I also think that the comparison view in Denoise AI is crucial to my workflow. I have almost no use for Gigapixel, and I am almost always disappointed in the sharpening created by either of the Topaz tools. The sharpening is almost always unnatural looking to my eyes. But, Denoise AI is a game changer that I wouldn't want to do without.

Topaz are offering Black Friday discounts but my Photo AI is good until next August but the other 3 in the bundle expired in May but I do have the last updated versions ( I had then long before PhotoAI came out). However all that I have read suggest that the latter are n longer getting software upgrades with all the effort going into Photo AI. Also I have seen suggestions that Lightroom's denoise is pretty good but need to try it as I usually go straight to Photo AI

Does it work for any computer pc. like do you need a certain gpu or something for it to work.

Thanks, I've been hoping someone would cover this (as I haven't had time to do my own comparison). I had purchased the Topaz "IQ Bundle" so they offered me Photo AI for free. If that's till the deal (it's not clear on the site, as it's the same price for either option), it looks like that would be the way to go, so you still have the option to use all of the "apps" individually or as a set in Photo AI. As an aside, I still prefer DxO DeepPRIME XD for NR over DeNoise for many images, but it only works on RAW (as do I normally) and I have some old JPGs, on which DeNoise/Photo AI work beautifully. I have noticed some artifacts and other aberrations when using Photo AI on certain images, so thanks for reminding me that there are cases where I'm better off using the individual programs. I hope that at some point they incorporate all of the "individual" features into Photo AI, but we're obviously not there yet (as it seems to be in a long-term "beta" mode). Also, I wonder if "lens blur" refers to camera shake. In either case, I suspect that the AI is "looking for" streaks/trails and "compressing" them to provide "after the fact" IS.

I want to eventually make print reproductions of my art . Is this app useful for that?

Great review. Just bought the 3 pack. So if I wanted to denoise an image, then sharpen it, do I have to work the photos in denoise then export it, bring it into sharpen and export again from there?

Just watched this and have to agree, I think Topaz Photo is just not a finished application I have had it since the day they offered it free and every week they bring out updates so that has got to be a year approximately Biggest problem now for people like us who prefer the original software is the lack of any enhancements to them as all there efforts are or seem to be going into Topaz Photo.

Thank you this is really perfect info. 🎉

couldn't find a bundle, maybe it's not available any more

so would you choose the bundle of 3, or just photo ai? price aside.

This video is 6 months old. Topaz has had a dozen release updates since then. Has it addressed these issues, and gotten better?

I clicked on the link to buy the individual programs and it didn’t seem to have any discount. It was the same price as when I was looking at them before seeing this video.

Where is the discount code your mentioned?

Came here wondering whether I should upgrade my Photo AI v.1.1.9 to the v.2.0. This video did not help me make that $99 decision but, as I still own the 3 separate apps as well, It did give me pause. I have been lazy and fell to the seduction of "one app to rule them all." Truth is, it's been months since I used anything Topaz other than Photo AI despite having Denoise, Sharpen and Gigapixel on my editing machine. It's just too easy to use AI instead. Thanks for pointing out that, while it might be "easiest," it's not necessarily "best."

Just wanted to note: if you already own the Image Quality Bundle, then Photo AI is heavily discounted (at least for me, after logging into my account, I was able to purchase it for ~$40). This is pure speculation, but it's likely Topaz Labs will eventually retire DeNoise, Gigapixel, and Sharpen, in favor of putting all functionality into Photo AI as a single app. Photo AI isn't there yet, as Austin has pointed out, but it seems to be an inevitability (building and releasing a single app is easier than doing the same for 3). The heavy discount for owners of the Image Quality Bundle could be an attempt to get everyone migrated over. Oh, and in fact, they state in their FAQ: "Eventually, Topaz Photo AI will have all the features needed to fully take over the function of DeNoise AI, Sharpen AI, and Gigapixel AI. At that point, it may fully replace these applications."

cannot locate the bundle in Topaz Labs

Where is the link for the discount?

no more bundle?

Photo AI is Right for me because I want to be more linear with my workflow and not have to process one image in 7 external Plugs.

I have been using the Topaz software for quite a while. I have the full suite. I definitely prefer to use the separate specialist packages: denoise, sharpen, gigapixel,… Photo AI is a little too basic in what it provides for those operations. Sometimes I use Topaz Studio 2 instead. It is good for global adjustments. One thing that annoyed me: in a recent update, the object removal tool seems to have disappeared. For that, I now use the Movavi Photo Editor, which looks like an earlier release of Topaz. Movavi is worth looking at as a competitor to Topaz.

I can't really disagree with everything you say here, but so much time is needed to do all this . Maybe improving one image can be worth it, but using it in a workflow situation . . . . . .

I think they don't have the bundle as an option anymore.

Unfortunately, I came across this video AFTER purchasing Photo AI. Then, one of the (many) updates took away the motion blur correction option. Fortunately, I'm still in the trial period so I'll get a refund and try DeNoise & Sharpen. Thanks for doing the leg work.

I have a lot of scanned dia positives which had been scanned to tiff files. Many of them contain al lot of noise. Is it possible to use Topaz DeNoise and Topaz Sharpen with good results on tiff files or are the tools working on raw file only ?

Hey thanks for the info. I'd like to purchase the bundle but I'm not able to find your discount code?

I hate that PhotoAI does not return the image to Lightroom automatically like the other three programs do. I find I have to return to the original folder and sync it again. Am I missing something or is this common?

Didn’t the new update bring back the 3 original options now aval in the newer product ?

Topaz is no longer offering the bundle. You can still get Gigapixel but the other two have been discontinued.

Your assessment of Photo AI mirrors my experience with it too. They have improved it greatly but it's still not able to deliver results as fine as one can attain following your delineation of and use of the various types of fine tuning options contained in the three separate programs. Undoubtedly, it will continue to improve but, as we all know, rarely does a one size fits all, automated - not needing real thought - solution ever truly equal what can be attained by individualized, precise adjustments that result and are needed for the highest quality results. I do use it but rarely on images I want "picture perfect", which is why you inserted the part about being picky. Bottom line is. Mostly I trust it but not completely.

You videos keep popping up as I try to make a better deepfake. I am making deepfakes for a hobby, Topaz seems like the best software to use to improve photo quality and runs from PC instead of cloud. Tried a bunch of github software and adobe express, but none seemed to work well. I am using videos and pulling faces from the video. This causes many of the photos to have motion blur. My main goal is just deblur these images that come from a video, but upscaling would be nice also. What version of Topaz would you think is best for this usage? They sell so many products. A video product of a photo one? Also what is the difference in noise and motion blur. I know nothing about photography. I think motion blur is a type of noise but not all noise is motion blur. I make video games normally and supper into machine learning programs.

Photo AI is the on;y program getting updated lately

I have both the bundle and Photo AI. Though Photo AI works fine, it is extremely slow on my 3 year old MacBook Pro. I can process a photo in Denoise AI, reopen the image in Sharpen AI and complete sharpening in significantly less time than it takes to use the same features in Photo AI. I have tested this with multiple raw files from my OM Systems OM-1 with consistent results. This significant time savings, plus the more control with the individual apps makes Photo AI much less valuable to me. I am surprised that others haven’t noticed this processing time difference, or haven’t commented about it.

Just download them all

with render (not photo) Topaz Gigapixel AI works not correct (

Thank you for clearing things up. I'm buying the bundle pack instead of the photo AI.

My experience is Photo AI over cooks the image.

They don't sell Sharpen AI and DeNoise AI anymore... you have to buy Photo AI

Their webpage is terrible at explaining their product options. Their help chat told me PhotoAI was the 3 applications bundled together...and after purchasing...they definitely are not. All you get is a couple sliders, and they absolutely butcher every photo I've tried it on. With Photo AI I can't even get close to the quality of picture that I previously got using only Denoise separately.

I have both Photoshop Elements and Photoshop 2023 and Topaz Labs is so much better and faster it ain't funny!

Wish I had watched this before I bought AI.😢

Stop throwing guys at me every 5 sec

Dont see a discount code ... anywhere even when I follow your links price stays the same as anywhere else, 79.99!!!!

I haven't bought any apps so far, I just cracked the apps. 💪🏻