3/6/2023 0 Comments Move image topaz clarity![]() ![]() Thanks to advancements in machine learning, Topaz Labs has been able to harness the power of artificial intelligence to more elegantly overcome this hurdle. Trying to stretch those pixels into a larger format causes clarity and quality to suffer immediately. Once a photo is taken, the size and number of pixels are set in stone. Photo upscaling has long been limited by the capabilities of existing technology. Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit optimization delivers high-quality image upscaling at higher speeds with Intel® Core™ processors. The software got better and so what wouldn've been a noisy mess 3 years earlier was now a series of lovely photos - and what detail in the skies! I'm so glad I didn't delete them - but having the RAW data made all the difference. I never deleted them and years later when I got LR3, realized that I could lighten them up, upsize them and they passed Alamy QC. ![]() Really dark because I had knocked into the EV +/- button. I had photos from Scotland taken with my D70 (6MP Kit lens). When you start adding textures and painting things in with your tablet - it's more than just photography - and it's not done to fix a bad photo but to enhance or even drastically change a good one.Įven if you're shooting jpeg you should shoot jpeg/RAW (great if you need to get news pix out fast). I can do that work all by hand in PS but sometimes the program does it for me - at least it's a worthwhile place to start and saves time.Ī photo can be more than what the camera saw - that's the real fun. "Dynamic Skin Softener" and "Graduated Neutral Density" can make quick work of many photos - I find the neutral density filter adds a bit of clarity and skin softener does just what it says. ![]() It's a great combo (with Tonal Contrast and sometimes Dark Detail Extractor-all in moderation) with Silver effects to bring out detail in Black & White images too. They're great both when I want to do something creative: "Detail Extractor" (a new one for me since I got the full set via the google buyout) is great when you really want to push a photo but don't want to go the full HD route. I find they're a good place to start, then go in and tweak things more with my tablet in PS. I haven't tried them since I'm happy with the Nik filters which I often use (you may want to check them out too). These are all serious photographers who get it right in the camera - they have studios with great lighting setups and they shoot classical portraits - but no portrait client wants to see the wrinkles etc that high quality equipment picks up Sometimes it's about efficiency, not art. ![]() I know a lot of portrait photographers who love the Topaz filters - and some of them blow up their work to fit over people's fireplaces - saving time is key for them. So now I'm really careful of the saying, "It's not the camera, it's the photographer".Īll that said, I doubt if any software could rescue these particular images, bringing us back on topic. Luckily, they only wanted to see them on screen or print them out 7x5 or similar so for them it wasn't an issue, and certainly not one person asked me about these technical problems. Of course, I couldn't say to the sweet grannies whose "Son bought me the camera for Christmas" (a common scenario) and some of whom didn't have computers, that their actual physical cameras were cr*p. My phone cam produces technically better images than most of these compacts, certainly in decent light. I was truly shocked at the awful quality, as I have an old Nikon 3700 and a Canon G9 which are fine for most non-stock and some stock needs. Tiny wee digicompacts with allegedly gazillions of mp. To my horror, I discovered that some of these cameras cost over £200 and in at least one case, over £300. In the same images (taken as jpegs, which most users do, and some of the cameras only allowed jpegs anyway), there were areas smudged and areas 'oversharpened', even on the same focus plane and in good light. Then I got astonished by the appalling IQ of some of the pics I was seeing, so I asked if I could use some in class (with the excuse that I hadn't used these models before). I started off with the old jokes about togs vs camera and told the students about the Bert Hardy/Box Brownie photo. I always said that, particuarly when I taught a beginners' photography class. ![]()
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