For photographers, images editors are pretty much essential nowadays if you want to get the most out of your photos. However, if you’re not particularly adept with this kind of software, you’re going to be at a clear disadvantage.

Topaz Photo AI is one of many applications designed to make image enhancement and correction accessible to everyone. It uses AI models to help you upscale, sharpen, and denoise your photos, and it’s able to do everything automatically, while still allowing you to make adjustments when necessary.

Load your images and let the app decide what to do

• The best way to flatten a learning curve is to do away with it altogether. Topaz Photo AI allows you to just drop your photos all at once, and it will analyze them to figure out how they can each be best enhanced. This feature is called Autopilot, and it can make it much easier for users who are unfamiliar with image editing.
• Once the files have been analyzed, hovering over the thumbnails will provide a quick summary of the changes to be made, and you can inspect a side-by-side preview to see how the photos will be altered. If anything is amiss, you can customize every parameter freely.

Upscale, sharpen, and denoise

• If you have lower-resolution images that lack detail, the app can increase their resolution while using models based on similar images to figure out how to fill in the new pixels. Up to 8x enhancement is possible, but results will be less reliable the higher you go.
• With upscaling or photos taken in less-than-ideal conditions, noise removal is typically necessary. Again, the app relies on AI models to differentiate between noise and essential details, and you can set how strong the processing should be.
• While you always want to make sure everything is in focus, you don’t always have time to avoid a blurry shot, and subjects in motion can make things even more difficult. With the app’s sharpening tool, you can often add more crispness to a shot without having to retake it.

Quite effective, but some manual adjustments are often necessary

• Topaz Photo AI does a good job of identifying where improvements can be made, and the suggested enhancements are usually on point. However, you still have to be prepared to tweak things occasionally, as AI can only be so smart.
• Overall, this is a great app for amateur photographers who are still learning the basics of photo editing, as it makes use of automation and AI models to both locate issues and figure out how to add and maintain image detail when enhancements are made.

What's New:

Version 4.0:

• Dust & Scratch Repair: It’s finally here. You can now resurrect old images by healing major scratches and dust particles for a clean image using the world’s best AI dust & scratch model only in Photo AI. It runs both locally and in the cloud, comes with a built-in healing brush for finishing touches - and it’s going to get even better over time!

• Revamped Autopilot Experience: Autopilot is more intuitive to use than ever before with this update, and you’re going to love the refreshed design. Booting up Photo AI for the first time will show the option to opt-in or out of Autopilot, and you can change this toggle at any time using a handy switch on the right hand panel. Suggestions also appear at the top of the filter stack, and are much easier to work with.

• Neck and Hair Controls for Face Recovery: More control over faces. Face Recovery improves details on faces, but also on hair, necks and shoulders - but we’ve never exposed these controls until now. Get the best Face Recovery results possible with more control over the model with this update. We’ve also split the controls for Face Recovery strength and selection to make it easier to work with in this release.

• Dynamic Face Recovery Strength: Get better faces every time. Autopilot will now use the best Face Recovery strength settings based on the size of the faces in your image. This creates much more natural results, preventing over-processing particularly for larger faces. Autopilot will also now ignore faces in the background which shouldn’t be processed, giving you better, more consistent results every time.

• Autopilot Intelligent Selection: Autopilot now senses whether your image may be a landscape, a portrait, or something else – and automatically updates your default selection to get the best results possible. This change is going to dramatically improve your Autopilot results for large batches of images by focusing on the most important subjects in your image.

• More Improvements: There’s even more under the hood. Denoise and Sharpen controls have been improved, and filters are now reverse chronologically ordered with the most recent filter appearing on top instead of the bottom of the stack. We’ve also improved the login flow, adding SSO options, and we’ve fixed many bugs to improve your experience with this release.

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