

So I was looking forward to Topaz Photo AI's subject detection, which will mask your subject and allows for some strength adjustment, but anyone who uses a brush to mask specific areas, will find this subject detection wanting. It would also be nice if you could mask certain areas rather than it have edit the entire image. You can save DXOPureRaw2 as a DNG or JPG, but JPG is useless if you have any light areas as it blows out your highlights. I just finished a trial of DXO PureRaw2 and, while it does a good job, left me wanting a few more options, such as being able to save as TIF.

It's supposed to make the denoising and sharpening quick and fairly automatic, but with a little bit more ability for user input and adjustment compared to DXOPureRaw2.

The good news is that Topaz offers 30 day money back guarantee, so I was able to get a refund. Topaz folks are looking for feedback, so hopefully fixes and improvements will be forthcoming. (4.5/5) Platform: Win, Mac Price: Free Trial or 199. Exact same image sharpened with Topaz Denoise AI comes out very well. For any difficult sharpening situations, such as a heavily cropped bird in flight, it was next to useless. I found that even at the lowest strength setting, sharpening was too strong.
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Does a good job with its Auto denoising, but sharpening is so much worse than in their individual Sharpen AI software that itis hard to believe it is made by the same folks. In September Topaz Labs will release a new app called Photo AI that will incorporate DeNoise AI, Sharpen AI, and Gigapixel AI into one software package and will replace the current Topaz Labs Image Quality Bundle (if you buy the Image Quality Bundle now, you will get the new Topaz Photo AI app for free). Used it for a few days and, in my opinion, not ready for launch.
