Topaz Labs officially released Photo AI version 2.4:
A new workflow
Image processing is the core of our application. We separated the tools and allowed them to run in any order, to put you in control. Now, it’s much easier to see how your image is improved step by step, and we hope this transparency leads to more creative outcomes. You can start editing a photo by adding just the enhancements you want -OR- run autopilot to analyze your image and start with our recommendations. Either way, you can edit, add, and remove enhancements as you go.
Control the processed area for each enhancement.
You decide which parts of the image are processed. The new design allows you to select which areas of the image are processed by each enhancement. Some examples of how you can use the new selection feature is adjusting the color balance of your subject, or selectively denoising only the background. The theme of this release is putting more control in your hands to shape images the way you want.
Goodbye to toggles, hello stacked enhancements.
Now you can use as many enhancements on your image as you want. For example, you can sharpen your subject and background with separate enhancements to be able to control the effect individually. We hope this unlocks new creative freedom and we can’t wait to see what y’all make! There are a few exceptions to this feature but we will continue to work on enabling the flexibility of stacking enhancements in future releases.
Customizable interface
We’re just taking our first steps toward customization in this release. You can now drag the enhancement panels out and place them where they work best for you. The team is working hard on more interface organization features and you can expect to see greater flexibility in future releases.
We’ve revamped how filters are processed to make Photo AI more responsive.
Creating a flexible processing order allowed us to dramatically improve the efficiency of processing:
- Preview updates faster when new edits are added
- Switching between your current edit and previous edits is much faster
- Background processing is enabled for computers with 24GB or more RAM when preview is updated (processor is not idle)
All this means editing your image feels faster compared to previous versions.
Crop it like it’s hot!
We know it’s been a long time coming. We’ve overhauled our crop tool to make it more responsive and added critical features like straightening. We’ve also fixed quite a few bugs. The new crop tool loads and saves much faster, and no longer runs Autopilot after for a snappy experience.
The Remove tool can now be used like other filters.
In the new workflow, you can use Remove at any point. It will lock previous edits, which is necessary to maintain consistent output from our generative AI. But other edits can be added after so it does not disrupt your image processing. We updated the controls so they are easier to use. Remove can also be easily edited or deleted from the stack.
What’s next
We are committed to adding new features that will reshape your favorite enhancing tool. Some of the most important work we’re doing:
- Adding new tools and enhancements
- Enabling more flexibility in how enhancements work
- New customization features
- Improving processing performance
