If you have a lot of files to get through, then you also have the option of bulk editing them.Īll you need to do is check that your default settings are correct and then drag all the files into the main window from Finder or File Explorer. Under Allowed Memory Consumption, choose High. Under Performance, use the toggle switch to Enable discrete GPU. You can speed things up even further by making a couple of changes in Preferences (Command +, on the Mac or under Topaz Gigapixel AI in the main menu): PerformanceĭeNoise AI and particularly Sharpen AI used to take a long, long time to save files, but the latest version of Gigapixel (v3.0.3) worked almost instantaneously on the file I used for this article. It’s also quite cool to try out Single View and just press and hold the Original button to see the difference between the ‘before’ and ‘after’ versions. In Sharpen AI and DeNoise AI, I find the Comparison View the quickest and most useful way of working out which method to use, but that isn’t available in Gigapixel AI.Īll you can do is choose Side-by-Side View, but that’s fine. However, the little girl is wearing a red swimsuit with white stars on it, and unfortunately the stars have turned into white blobs!Īs somebody once said, “The impossible we do at once the miraculous takes a little longer.” View modes On a few occasions, DeNoise AI just won’t be able to rescue the image, so all you can do then is delete it and load the next one on your list.Īs you can see with the Before and After pictures at the top of this article, Gigapixel coped very well with removing the pixellation of the original image, which in this case was only a 45KB file measuring 285 x 213px and with a resolution of 72dpi. It’s important to note that Gigapixel AI doesn’t always produce the perfect result, so you’ll sometimes have to make manual adjustments. Play around with the Reduce Color Bleed and Face Refinement toggle switches to see if you can get any further improvement. Play around with the Suppress Noise and Remove Blur sliders to see if you can manually improve the combination of sharpness and noise reduction. If the image is not sharp enough or too noisy, then you have a few different options: Image Format (Preserve source format, JPG, JPEG, TIF, TIFF, PNG or DNG) If you’re happy with the image, you can export it in any of a number of different formats:Ĭlick on the Save Image button (or the Apply button if you’ve opened DeNoise AI from Lightroom. (This works almost as it does in Lightroom, and you can choose the Aspect Ratio that you want from a number of options: Free, Original Ratio, 1 : 1 (Square), 2 : 3 (4 : 6), 3 : 4 (6 : 8), 4 : 5 (8 : 10), 5 : 7, 8.5 : 11, 16 : 9 and 21 : 9.)Ĭlick on View in the top menu bar and select Side-by-Side View (to show the original and the new version).Ĭlick on Zoom in the top menu bar and select Zoom 100% (or simply hit Command+2 on the Mac or Control+2 on the PC).Ĭlick on the eye of the subject in the preview window.Ĭlick on each of the Standard, Architectural, Compressed and Art buttons in the right menu bar) and toggle the Settings to Auto, choosing whichever AI Mode you think works best.Īt this point, you should have found the best combination of settings for your image. Select the scale factor you want to try (using either the Scale, Width or Height buttons and options).Ĭrop the image if necessary using the Crop button. What I tend to do is use as many of the automatic settings as possible and only play around with the manual sliders if I’m really not happy with the results.ĭrag the first image into the main window. Gigapixel AI has a simple interface, and it’s very easy to use. “Art: Works best for digital cartoons, screenshots from animated movies and video games, and digital scans of paintings and drawings.” Best for old family photos, images downloaded from the internet, and photos taken on old cameras.” “Compressed: For images that have a lot of noise. This AI model is best for cityscapes, and even typographical imagery.” “Architectural: For images with a lot of clear, crisp edges. This uses the standard Gigapixel AI model, trained on thousands of images.” Height: box for Max Height in pixels, inches or centimetresįour different algorithms to choose from: Width: box for Max Width in pixels, inches or centimetres Scale: 0.5x, 2x, 4x, 6x and …x (ie custom) Three Resize Modes (Scale, Width and Height) Regular software updates to improve performance With its ability to suppress noise and reduce blur, the program allows you to resize your images better than any other product on the market, including Lightroom or Photoshop, and it also has a variety of other features similar to those in Sharpen AI and DeNoise AI: Gigapixel AI is the ‘ugly duckling’ of the Topaz Labs suite of software programs, but it can be just as useful as Sharpen AI and DeNoise AI if you need to enlarge an image, say for printing.
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