More vacation pix from the 2003 Baja trip, made with my 2MP #Fuji digital camera.

I was trying to use #TopazPhotoAI to save time. Tonight I gave up. Photoshop is way better, even if it takes longer.

These shots are from the parasailing trip. All photos have blurry spots. That's from the ocean spray on the lens.

The aerial shots are my view from the sky.

That person under the parachute is my dad. It's the last photo we have of him. The rope broke right after, and we never saw him again.
😜

Today on the blog
A review of a real game changer
#topazphotoai

https://frankdoorhof.com/web/2023/02/this-is-a-game-changer-topaz-photo-ai/

#plugin #review #sharpening #upscaling #topazlabs #lightroom #noisereduction

Again I found a very old and crappy resized JPG on my drive. So I again wanted to see what AI software can rescure here. I'm absolutely impressed!! #TopazPhotoAI #Photography #AI

I ended up buying #TopazPhotoAI. I'm enjoying it, and I'll be using it to recover photos where focus is a bit off, shutter speed a bit too slow, or ISO a bit too high.

I'm also using it to remove noise from my #drone #photography because my drone produces large resolution images, but there's enough noise that cropping is a bit limited.

I discovered that it does help, but also kinda makes close crops look like miniatures/models because of the smoothing that seems to happen.

I still like it.

Wizard Nebula #NGC7380
Processing on APP to stack and register, PI for final color and adjustments, denoise with Topaz. #astrodon #astroPixelProcessor #pixInsight #topazPhotoAI #astroPhotography (re-upload)

Wizard Nebula #NGC7380
Processing on APP to stack and register, PI for final color and adjustments, denoise with Topaz. #astrodon #astroPixelProcessor #pixInsight #topazPhotoAI #astroPhotography

Pacman Nebula (NGC 281)
Processing on APP to stack and register, PI for final color and adjustments, denoise with Topaz. (Didn’t upload before)
#astrodon #astroPixelProcessor #pixInsight #topazPhotoAI
#astroPhotography

Pacman Nebula (NGC 281)
Processing on APP to stack and register, PI for final color and adjustments, denoise with Topaz.
#astrodon #astroPixelProcessor #pixInsight #topazPhotoAI
#astroPhotography

I’m seeing similar problems with #TopazPhotoAI. Interesting/frustrating that their older program is producing better results. #photography #Photoedit https://www.diyphotography.net/testing-six-ai-based-noise-reduction-programs-for-astrophotography/

I've had pretty poor results with #TopazPhotoAI, mostly because it over-corrects noise and over-sharpens resulting in unrealistic detail. However, with unrealistic subject, this isn't a problem. Amazing results getting rid of motion blur from too slow shutter. JPEG from camera on left, Topaz + normal color and tone edits on right. #photography #disneyphotography