Topaz Labs has launched Photo AI 2, one of our favourite pieces of software for our workflow with Lightroom Classic. Its ease of use and noise reduction and image sharpening has been a bit of a revelation. Pretty much every higher ISO image we like ends up going through Photo AI first.

Topaz Photo AI 2 introduces generative AI features designed for professional-grade photo editing

Topaz Photo AI 2 has launched with all-new AI powered features, including a single-slider lighting adjustment filter, a color balance filter, and other best-in-class image enhancement features powered by generative AI.

Topaz Labs is running a launch promotion, so you can save some money until September 22, 2023.

Photo AI is a lifetime license, it'll work for a long time without upgrading to future versions if it does what you want it to do. You do get 1-year of unlimited upgrades after purchase. We have found the software to run very effectively and haven't had any issues since we started using it.

For everyone else, you should see the update available when you launch Photo AI.

Press Release

Dallas, TX – Topaz Labs today announced the availability of Topaz Photo AI 2, the second major version of its flagship desktop app for image quality enhancement. With this upgrade, Topaz Photo AI uses generative AI to deliver on its promise of best-in-the-world image quality for professional and prosumer photographers. With the new advancements in v2, photo editors can now:

  • Adjust Lighting improves lighting and addresses over/underexposure in a visually pleasing way. It can deal simultaneously with extreme highlights or shadows in the same image.
  • Balance Color attempts to remove color casts, then allows editors to adjust relative temperature based on the neutral baseline.
  • Maximize image quality on raw files with a heavily improved AI-based Raw Remove Noise engine that greatly outperforms alternatives in blind quality tests.

The new release also features improved blur reduction AI models and the ability to access Gigapixel generative upscaling directly from the Automate menu in Photoshop.

With Photo AI 2, Topaz Labs continues to bridge the gap between cutting-edge technology and magical results for photographers serious about image quality.

“Topaz Photo AI v2 shows the huge potential of generative AI to make editing real photos better,” said Eric Yang, CEO of Topaz Labs. “Photographers can focus entirely on achieving their artistic vision and let technology worry about the technical details.”

Topaz Photo AI 2 is a desktop software for Mac and Windows with integrations available for major image editors. It’s available on the Topaz Labs website for the introductory price of $159 for new users and $79 for existing users without an active upgrade license.

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  1. Topaz Labs has launched Photo AI 2, one of our favourite pieces of software for our workflow with Lightroom Classic. Its ease of use and noise reduction and image sharpening has been a bit of a revelation. Pretty much every higher ISO image we like ends up going through Photo AI first. Topaz Photo AI

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    I downloaded it as I am still in the upgrade period - you get used to upgrading Topaz AI once or twice a week as they continuously improve it. For the fun of it, I ran a very noisy image I have posted elsewhere here of a bird taken at iso 20k, heavily cropped, removing the noise as you go down the images using DxO PL6 (XD noise reduction) 2; DxO PL6 (XD noise reduction) followed by Topaz Denoise 3; Photoshop AI Enhanced 5; Topaz Denoise from RAW 7. They are all pretty good but I prefer DxO XD. PS takes ages to process. I find Topaz AI pretty useful and it does have its unique upscaling facility. What's also nice about Topaz is that its Denoise works very well on jpegs whereas the other two need RAW. As a plus, it means you don't have wait a few weeks or months til a new RAW converter from DxO comes out when a new camera model is released.


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