First Look: Topaz Labs GIGAPIXEL 7! [AI-powered Upscaling Tutorial]
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The latest version of Topaz Labs Gigapixel is here with a refreshed UI, new AI models for upscaling, and a lot more! Check out my first-look walkthrough!
Chapters:
00:00 - Why photographers need upscaling
03:19 - Going over the Gigapixel 7 UI
03:58 - Gigapixel 7 vs Topaz Photo AI
08:02 - Sending a photo to Gigapixel 7 from Lightroom using Photoshop
12:58 - Upscaling a photo using Gigapixel 7 as a standalone app
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For 1 year they didn’t upgrade their software, while people had paid upgrade passes. They only upgraded Photo AI, making people believe this will be the company’s future. Now all of a sudden they release GP 7, when all upgrade passes are at an end. Bad move, really.
for real
Can buy the full seat for $95. Upgrade is $79. Not much of a deal!
@@robs3557 Yeah, I totally agree.
Yeah, I totally agree. True
I upscaled a tiny 234x234 thumbnail to four times it's size and was blown away by how well it worked. Everything looked great. Impressive!
They just added the new models of this update to PhotoAI as well today, so owners of that product won't be missing out if they don't have Gigapixel.
Great video, many thanks. Glad/reassured to see that Topaz are still actively developing one of their legacy apps!
Brian you have provided an excellent tour of GigaPixel 7. I just upgraded my GigaPixel, and now I know how to use it based on this awesome tutorial. Thanks Brian!!!
You’re most welcome, Stephen! Thank you so much!
Thank you, great video. Just one detail 😊: when you save an image file for further editing always use tif and not jpg.
Loved your steady and calm and beautifully paced voiceover😀
Why thank you!
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I could not agree more, very well explained and presented, I'm subscribing
Fab overview, thanks!
Very well explained. I have 3 or 4 drone shots that I forgot to change the default settings from 12mp to 48mp. Now I'm stuck with a low resolution image, but this video is telling me that I still have hope to be able to print these images in 80 inches long.
I will try this tomorrow and after that we'll see if they are worth printing in that mega size. For now...Thank you!
Thank you very much. There is - as we all well know - SOOOOO much to know about the various vagaries and arcane mysteries of Photoshop, Lightroom and all things pertinent to them such as Gigapixel. That, the more I learn, the more I know I don't know but, thanks to guys (and even an occasional gal! sms) out there, who take the time to help us understand - it makes life much easier.
Keep up your good work because? We inquiring minds want to know - and whatever you are doing? It's working. Take care.
Excellent. Thank you.
Nice video, good luck!
Very informative, Brian!
Thank you, Jeff!
You do excellent job 👍
Thank you for a very informative video. I do use the latest Gigapixel 7 that I think does a great job of upscaling low res images overall. The only issue that I have found is that it creates shadow contour lines around the area where the colour changes are drastic. In your own example of the iceberg image you will see it around the woolly hat and also at the top of the blue coat.
Great Video! I have a question. Is the Denoise and Sharpening in GIGAPIXEL ai as good as the stand-alone Topaz Denoise and sharpening? I usually will use Gigapixel then take the file over to both denoise and sharpening for their specific process.
Hi Brian, great tutorial. I've got the latest version of gigapixel but can't seem to find the info on the image as seen on yours in the top right corner. Thanks
Thanks, Brian, excellent demonstration and informative. Can you please comment on the ART/CG model I have copies of Paintings and would like to upscale them, thank you
I use ON1. As you know they also have a very good upscaling option. Have you compared GP with the ON1 offering and is there a significant difference? Again, love your content. Thank you.
YES!!!! This is a great AP!!!
It really is, right?!
I bought this software hoping to sharpen and expand low-res photos. You said it's not great for denoise and deblur. What would you recommend?
As always, Brian, you have done an excellent job in your tutorial, but I may need to wait to try it out.
I upgraded to PhotoAI (2.3.0) so I wouldn't have to upgrade Sharpen, DeNoise, and Gigapixel separately -- not to mention the convenience of using all of these tools in one application.
I now fear the latest Gigapixel version is a separate purchase. I have a question open with Topaz Labs support on that.
I truly enjoy tutorial on giga pixel.
Can you do one with artwork pleaser.
I want to buy it-but I meanly do digital Artworks. Also what would be better for upscale 1. Photo Ai or 2.gigs pixel for digital Artwork? Thanks in advance:) 👍🏽
I got the full photography suite of 4 apps last November so was entitled to this upgrade. Nice app, more control to enlarge/upscale without any sharpening... Cool. It has crashed a few times on windows 11. 🧐
Hi Brian, I'm looking for a tool to recover photos from old phones or maybe some that are a bit blurry, is it advisable to purchase GP7 for this or the tech is just not there yet?
Hi again Brian, I have a 61 megapixel camera that produces wonderful files. What AI has appeared to have accomplished, is the ability for much less expensive cameras, to produce files that can be upsized with amazing results. What therefor, is the need to go beyond a 24 megapixel sensor in the hardware department when these results are now possible. As an aside, will G7 batch process? If not, that would be a significant step forward for those that want to produce great files for much less. As always, thanks for the excellent content. You have become one of the best online sources of info out there. Thanks so much!
Thank you, does the gentleman mean going from 72dpi to 300 dpi plus for print ..
I have version 6, I don't see any significant improvements in quality... 6 works fine
Great tutorial Brian! Thank you so sharing the info. Question though. You mentioned Lightroom does not have 3rd party integration so Gigapixel can't open up in Lightroom. I have LR Classic and I'm able to open any Topaz software from within. Maybe I misunderstood. Thanks!
Thanks, Patricia!
That’s correct. Lightroom (the Cloud version that I use and teach on Desktop and Mobile) does not have 3rd party app support aside from Photoshop (at least at the time of recording this video).
LR Classic has robust 3rd party app support, so you can send your photos to Topaz Labs directly from it. I don’t teach Classic, though, which is why I provided that disclaimer.
Okay thanks for the clarification!
Ahh, that's how you see get to Gigapixel in PS. Thanks Brian.
Brian, good video. I will be upgrading to the latest version of Gigapixel. But I have to mention when I export a RAW file from LR to PS, It opens as a RAW (NEF) file in Photoshop.
Correct… when you use LR Classic. I use Lightroom, which sends the file to PS as a TIFF.
What was the purpose of changing the color mode to PROPHOTO RGB?
Hi Brian thanks for this video! I am a newbie for the past few months and just updated to Gigapixel 7 version but say for instance I used the "very compressed" option and would save art/photo to my apple Mac downloads, it would usually be at 300 dpi but now it stays at 72dpi and when I change it manually to 300 and zoom in its really pixelated still but the version before this did not happen, trying to figure out what I am doing wrong on this new version as it is a bit different. Should mention its for digital art/ai art to then print. Thanks!
I have the same problem, let me know if you find a solution
If you want VERY compressed to get a smaller file size then you are going to loose resolution.
I own every topaz product- love them all - Photo ai seems sufficient to replace legacy denoise/sharpen/giga- sorry they have discontinued support on some older more 'creative' products especially Impression 2
Would you recommend sharpening, denoising in Photoshop or Photo AI?
To be honest, I'm quite happy with Lightroom's sharpening and AI noise reduciton.
Maybe doing something wrong with settings but have just updated and wasn't impressed, much slower to preview image processing and results looked very Ai and not as realistic and not as good as the results I was getting with 6.3 version.
Mine works via Lightroom plug in. No issues.
Can Topaz Labs vectorize as well?
Any v6 users who upgraded to v7 can share if it's really worth upgrading to this new version?
Brian, you forgot to mention they want a hundred bucks to upgrade for a fairly minor change.
From what I see, it is $79.00 to purchase the product upgrade plan for Gigapixel 7. I believe it's $99.00 for a new user.
@@brianmatiash I got the pop up when I opened Gigapixel and clicked on renew, a checkout appeared in my browser and it was $99. I was logged in on my app. I'll stick with my old version!
@@brianmatiash Update....I went to my account outwith the app and logged in. Went to the dashboard and clicked renew updates specifically on Gigapixel....Doing it this way revealed the $79 upgrade deal. Looks like an in app glitch.
How does it compare to 6.3.3?
Upscaling AI is getting scary good, soon no one will believe old photos actually used to look like that.
Brian, will they integrate the models into PhotoAI or keep them independent? I enjoy my workflow, and currently, my only software outside of Adobe is Photo AI. I've uninstalled Luminar, On1, and even Topaz-everything except PhotoAI. I used to purchase every photo app on the market, but Adobe does it all and does it better, except for noise reduction, sharpening, and upsizing. I'm confident that Adobe will catch up in these areas soon.
Hard to say re: whether Topaz will add those GP models into TPAI. On one hand, it’d probably cannibalize GP sales by doing so, but if upscaling is the only thing you really need, then it is half the price of TPAI (when looking at MSRP, not promo pricing). I’m also with you - I prefer keeping my edits as much within LR as possible, but you can’t deny the benefits that 3rd party apps, like GP, have for specific use cases such as upscaling.
I still would like Adobe to cover it all in-house. I remember exporting files for panorama and HDR, and now it is seamless inside of Lightroom (LR). Not only is it an easier workflow, but also a superior result.@@brianmatiash
PhotoAI v 2.3 has the new Standard v2 and High Fidelity v2 but not the other 3 (Lines, Art, Compression).
Brian - Two things: 1) I normally use GP to downscale so as to get under my 25MB email restriction. I didn't see any scale but whole numbers. Are things like 0.80 still available? 2) Is this a free update to Gigapixel owners or are they charging for it?
What for? Simply reduce the JPG compression slightly and you will have much smaller files without sacrificing size. From 12 to 11 is already an enormous reduction in file size without any compression artifacts.
I agree with that. It’s amazing how much of a file size reduction you get when you reduce JPG quality from 12 to 11, 10, 9…
@@brianmatiash I always save on 12. I only use Gigapixel so I can email the over 25MB files My question was can I still use the program to make a smaller version to email? When I edit photos I want the highest quality only.
I'm assuming with Photo AI we will get all this goodness with an update for that software...
That’s a good question, Randy. Not sure, to be honest.
Thank you very much for your review. Personally, I think the processed image with Face Recovery looks horrible , but I get some people prefer that artificial doll look. For me the original file looks much better so I will test with High Fidelity 2 and see if it matches the Photoshop superesolution. I am not interested in inventing data with IA. I want upscale respecting the original image fidelity. It is good you have the choice to disable the Face recovery alltogether.
So, you can't use plugins with Lightroom? Maybe you can't - but other people have been able to do that for years. You can right click the image, choose edit with Topaz Gigapixel. For lots of other plugins you can export images directly as raw data to the plugin.
Lightroom does not support 3rd party plugins aside from Photoshop. You are referring to Lightroom Classic, which is not what I use in this video. I know that Lightroom Classic supports 3rd party plugins, but I use-and teach-Lightroom.
is topaz one time payment or subscription?
One time, with 1 year of updates. You can choose to pay for another year of updates in the future, any time.
Great tutorial as always, thanks. Perhaps I misunderstood, but I am able to go directly from Lightroom Classic (Mac current 13.1 Release) directly to Gigapixel AI (ver 7 now). I simply right click on an image in the filmstrip - either in Develop or Library, scroll to 'Edit In' and all my Topaz plugins & others show up there. It will take me directly to Gigapixel AI, then return me to LR. Great channel, extremely helpful.
Yup, you can still send a photo directly from Lightroom Classic to Gigapixel 7. I was referring to Lightroom, which is the version of the app that I use to manage my photos.
I don't know if GP is still needed, there are so many AI-based apps that do the same job at least as well or better. I think Photo AI is enough.
Thanks
Is Photo AI good for sharpening? Or do you think Sharpen AI would be better? I have a lot of old photos I want to sharpen but I couldn’t get a straight answer from Topaz lol
@@pafredricks I don't have TP Scharpen AI so I can't make a comparison with Photo AI, but the "advantage" of Photo AI is that it also has the possibility of removing noise, improving faces and allowing you to mask the regions you want to improve. Even so, I find a program very expensive for what it offers and I use it for things that are not so critical and that have to be done quickly. Depending on what you want to do, it would be better to try the trial version first and see if it solves your problem.
On the other hand, there are several videos on CZcams that make precisely that comparison and can be a guide. In the end it is better to try with your own material
@@RSV9thanks for your help. I appreciate it!!
Works in "edit in" in LrC. No need to go to PS.
That’s correct. However, I use Lightroom and want to cater this video to LR users.
All the Topaz apps open.from LR. No need for Photoshop. TIFF made automatically.
Brian, this opens from Lightroom! “Edit in …”
Once again, I am referring to Lightroom, not Lightroom Classic. Lightroom does not have 3rd party app support outside of Photoshop.
This guy has way too much time on his hands to upscale cat photos!
Is it better to upscale the original then crop in or is it best to crop in and upscale the crop?