BEST software for FIXING BLURRED / OUT OF FOCUS portraits
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- ฤas pลidรกn 30. 06. 2024
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Not something you ever want to use but damn useful when you need to! In this video I try out 3 different software / plug ins to fix a blurred / out of focus portrait ... Luminar Neo, On1 NoNoise AI 2023 and Topaz Sharpen AI ... and the winner produces an insanely good result!
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These results are why yours and other CZcams videos are so important as they save people a lot of frustration and cost. Thank you again Glyn.
Thanks so much Warren
I've become a big fan of the new Topaz AI programs. This past Autumn, I did a family portrait session that was scheduled for 3:30 in the afternoon at a local park. Because of the time and how we'd planned to shoot, I wasn't particularly worried about lighting. But because of some issues, they didn't show up until almost 5:00. In order to get the shots they wanted, I had to crank up the ISO.
Once I started editing, the noise was going to ruin the images. Topaz AI worked miracles not only in terms of noise, but the sharpening was impressive as well. Really saved the session, and I can't recommend them enough.
This is amazing. Iโm so excited about how itโs going to help me. I did a photographic trip 20 years ago where I shot in rural Asia for 6 months without knowing that one of my rangefinder bodies was out of calibration, plus my main 35mm star lens was back-focusing badly at certain apertures too. Only arriving 6 months later at a big city pro lab did I see the issue, I was devastated at all the amazing photos with a focus just off like yours above. Now, I see that I could well rescue a fair few. And even more so with todayโs new Lightroom tech as well for exposure tweaks too. Now, back to my film scanner!!! Thanks so much for sharing. Very excited!!
Your result didn't surprise me. I've been using both Topaz AI Sharpen & Topaz AI denoise for almost 4 years now and it's very impressive software. Likewise its rescued a few photos where I screwed up. Obviously no software can correct severely out of focus errors and subject/camera motion but it still amazes me how well Topaz works.
Yeah so incredibly useful for those unfortunate times when focus isnโt on
Topaz is amazing for sharpening. I have some old photographs I almost threw away and they were rescued by Topaz.
Hi Glyn, love your video and glad you managed to get this portrait the justice it deserves, lesson learned there is to get several shots. I'm pretty new to PS though and found that some AI sites are pretty good but I found this formula pretty good to get the same results
Desaturate
Convert to Smart Object
Change to Overlay
Select High Pass
Add a Layer Mask and Invert it
Select Brush, White, and paint in sharpness
I've also discovered that your can sharpen using blur, this is new to me but haven't tried it yet.
Yes! I've been a Topaz fan for a long time now. I agree, one never hopes to have to use them, but is great that there is a good option out there. I really liked the idea of masking out eyes or any other areas of interest back in PS. Saved it so I don't forget about it.
I use Topaz Sharpen AI as the standard stage-1 sharpening tool for all my digital images. For the most part, I use it mostly not to rescue poorly shot images (though I have my fair share of those!), but to compensate for the inherent limitations of my lenses at whatever f stop Iโve used them. I do the first stage of processing (colour temperature etc) in Lightroom with the LR sharpening turned off, then export images to PS and use Sharpen AI (as a plug-in) as the first stage of PS processing. Iโm rarely dissatisfied with the result. Iโve also occasionally used Sharpen AI to rescue substandard (blurry) images, in one case improving a blurred tele shot of a forest canopy to a standard suitable for reproduction in an art-quality book. The software canโt work miracles, but it comes close at times.
I've been learning from your videos from your very early days on CZcams and you never fail to deliver.
I had never thought about sharpening selectively by using layer masks. This is brilliant. I just tried it on an image and the result is amazing. By doing this, you can eliminate where Topaz gets a little carried away and just sharpen the areas that need sharpening and leave the background soft if that's what you want. Selective sharpening. I love the idea.
I also use layer masks for selective blurring. If a background isn't soft enough -- if I had to use too small of an aperture for exposure control, for example -- I'll add gaussian blur to a duplicate layer, and then use selective masking to make the subject pop. I don't even have the full Photoshop or Lightroom; I do that in PS Elements.
Yes Robert, but you can also selectively sharpen WITHIN Sharpen AI. - Regards Norbert
New to all of this and had a 4pm shoot in harsh lighting having to learn all of this on the fly...really appreciate your video. Being self taught isn't easy and can be super frustrating.
Thank you for the comparison, well done and easy to see the difference in the AI software. I use Topaz and the fist image I used it on was a real eye open. I focused on a trumpet players hand playing the trumpet. This cause the face to be out of focus, ran it through Topaz Sharpen and it came out very sharp.
Thatโs amazing to hear Gary โฆ such clever technology that can really help when needed
Thanks for showing an honest comparison
Having used Topaz DeNoise for a couple of years I recently upgraded to Topaz PhotoAI (but also got Sharpen AI, DeNoise AI and Gigapixel AI as separate apps too). I have to say that I am impressed with its capabilities. I've not compared it to other apps so can't comment on caprison but it works for me. Of course, getting the focus right in the camera is still the aim.
100% with you there David
All three should (and photo AI) clearly all be collected together in the same software. the fact they're not, I'm afraid is a function of Topaz trying to leech more money out of their customers, who already paid for licences. In addition the interfaces, while appearing professional-looking on the surface, are actually pretty terrible. The underlying technology though, it's great.
It s good to know that each product has its limitations depending on the picture and degree of blur. I once tried Topaz but it didnโt give me the results I wanted, however, these AI software really do amazing things. Thank you again!
Yeah its definitely a case of each having their uses for certain kinds of pictures as opposed to a โone does it allโ scenario
Awesome! I was about to trash one of the only beautiful but blurred photo I took during an event and you saved me! Keep it up mate :)
Glad this has helped ... cheers ๐๐ป
I had some free time to mess around with the Topaz free trial after seeing this video. I threw in some out-of-focus concert shots I got a little while ago and was actually really impressed by how well it fixed them. Insanely useful.
Yeah really clever stuff
Thanks for the comparison Glyn ๐๐ป. I use Topaz Photo AI on my bird photography and it does an amazing job. Sometimes it can be hard to nail the focus between branches or in flight so this software has saved me several times ๐.
Cheers Tor and yeah you may have seen I tried photographing a Bird in flight recently โฆ geez โฆ not easy ๐คฃ
My two-pennorth, having been using topaz photo ai from launch, is that the weekly upgrades & improvements are now making his a very useful bit of kit & topaz seem to listening pretty carefully to users' responces & requests.
I, for one, have been hoping for a freehand masking brush & here it comes ๐.
Something that might help someone - When sharpening the subject only (the only way I use sharpening), if you are going to recover faces, try removing the mask from the faces so they don't sharpen:
I find that, often, I get some very odd effects when using both algorhythms & face recovery often works magic on a blurry physog.
I have used Topaz Denoise for years, and it saved my butt many times for my old camera in lower light situations. I got their SharpenAI for an urgent situation. I was amazed. I hope not to have to use it again for a long time, BUT, itโs good to know itโs there if an out of focus gem presents itself. And the masking tip is the way to do it, for the app does sharpen everything in the pic.
Thank you very much for this! It seems an ideal additional software for my DXO photolab 6, which I like best for photo editing.
Wow, this is a great comparison. Thank you for doing this!
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Thank you SOOO MUCH for sharing this amazing software! I appreciate that!๐
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Great, this video came out as ordered. Just had some blurry pictures of my daughter playing and wondered how to fix best. Cheers mate ๐๐ป
Glad it helped ๐
Very informative. thank you!
Thank you for this video. Saved me a lot of trouble checking them all out on my own
No worries ๐
Thank you so much Glynn, I always use Topaz De Noise, even more than the new AI stuff, De NOise, makes 4 options and what's great, it has a mask you can use either on hide or show all and paint what you need! Long topaz user here, and I see this is one of the best of all the compared apps. There is also the new DxO for denoising and sharpening, but nothing to do in the results with Topaz. Thanks for sharing! Best from Uruguay , and be happy my friend.
Thank you Glyn. An experiment that was rigorously conducted. Topaz, at least on this occasion, would seem to have won hands down.
Definitely want to try this on some old photos I've taken. Thanks for the review!
You're welcome
Impressive stuff Glyn I'm going to check now if my image from the workshop is in focus!! .....
I shoot wildlife and a little bit of event stuff. I'm amazed and delighted with how Topaz performs - most of the time. I'm using Photo AI mostly now and it's improved a lot with the last couple of upgrades. However I do find with all the Topaz stuff, it's a bit hit and miss. Sometimes it's outstanding, at others I can get better results just faffing around in PS. The really annoying thing is there doesn't seem to be much consistency in when it works or not, at least not that I can find.
Still it's a great tool and I wouldn't be without it.
Great real world test Glyn. Iโll definitely consider this next time I run into difficulty.
Cheers Joe
Great helpful video, Thank you ๐
great video for when you would love 1 of those shots that you would love & just missed slight focus....Thanks for the video & your time to share.
Agree - Topaz sharpen and clarity are both in my tool box, clarity for artistic reasons and sharpen for those โooops!โ moments we all wish didnโt happen!
Absolutely Lorraine โฆ so good to have it there for โthoseโ times ๐
Thanks very much., New subscriber here. I"m sold-your videos get straight to the point, no cheesy intros, and short enough to keep my interest. I'll be checking out many more, specifically the AI videos and how to do clean cutouts, hair, etc.
Very kind of you to say that Margaret ... thank you
@@glyndewis Just a suggestion from a not so much newby but not pro person. Are you able to show details of exactly what you are doing? Or does that just take more time? EX: you said in one of your videos you are placing your subject on a grey layer. I had to google how to do that. Also, in another video you added a red mask layer. I paused the video again to google how to do that. It's not always easy to find the right video, as you know. Just a suggestion ; some of us have not used your methods ............. yet . But I will
Topaz's newest product is Photo AI which includes features of Sharpen AI, Denoise AI, and Gigapixel AI (upsizer w face features).
Nice one ... I"ll check it out ... thanks Martin
Do you find it better than using each topaz software alone ? Iโve read somewhere that itโs better to us these individual S D G alone
@@Hsukhaybir Photo AI is being updated more frequently but mainly for procedural options. I don't have an opinion about Sharpen and Denoise vs Photo.
Love it.
Thank you
great video and I already had the Topaz - it's amazing even if you have a great photo - set everything to 1 and run it anyway. Super sharp photos every time. Great tool addition and it's great software.
Sure is ๐
Thank you!
Excellent, thanks a lot!!!
No worries!
Amazing indeed
I agree! I bought Topaz Sharpen AI a couple of weeks ago and wasn't really sure if I got the best of the bunch. I'm feeling better. I think it's an insurance policy against having missed focus on the shot with the best pose in the session. Cheers!
Absolutely Frank โฆ very useful having it there โฆ just in case
I have and use Topaz and I never thought of adding a Black mask to apply selectively. Great idea....
I've been looking through reviews of Luminar's Supersharp AI. I notice middle ALWAYS looks bad, but low and high do a good job, so it's kind of disheartening that you ignored the high setting in your test. But I do agree that, based on the settings you showed, Topaz is the best option.
Thank you A LOT! for that
Glyn and most other comments are all for Topaz. After about 1.5 years of using the Topaz suite of apps, I gave up because of the random artefacts the modules started creating. Sticking to manual sharpening in PS for now. Thanks for the comparison Glyn
This could not have been timed better for me. I have just had the same situation. Many thanks.
Thatโs great to hear Ken
I use everyday for my wildlife...it's amazing love it
I use Topaz Photo (which includes Sharpen) and it blows me away.
While I also try to get the focus right to start with, I use this a LOT in photo restoration. It is truly amazing what it will do with archival and historical photos.
Hmmm ... will have to try it on some old photos too ๐
Thanks for the advice. Glen Silva
I just used Topaz Photo AI to sharpen a very old family photo that was a bit blurry. It did a phenomenal job!
Impressed!
Thank You so much
Any ideas of sharping
Color negatives from
The โ60s
Hi Glyn, I've watching and learning (a lot) from all your videos. Regarding the one from 2013 where you explained how you took pictures of dogs with flash in coffee shops.
May I ask you what lens did you use in those cases?
Thanks for all your videos!!!
Topaz has saved numerous shots for me. their noise reduction and upscaling plugins are also great.
But defocus is a lie or maybe just for faces!
This was the most useful software recommendation ever...
Great video, as usually. I solved a similar problem, sometime ago, and at the time, by recomendation of a friend, i used the Remini app and it solved my issue. The con is that itยดs only available on phone. Nevertheless, Topaz seems a better solution.
Cheers... and thank you!
I haven't used the products you did here but I have always had great success with NIK Sharpener.
Iยดm using Topaz and Iยดm very happy with it!
Excellent, very informative software review.
Thank you Jerry
I was not surprised when the "winner" of your comparison test was Topaz AI Sharpen. I invested in this piece of AI software a while ago when I was attempting to "rescue" a couple of shots deemed to be "not as sharp as it should be" at a Camera Club meeting. As you say, it is not a universal go-to, and so it's more important to rely on trying to get things right at Stage 1 rather assuming that it is a cure-all. I am also relieved of course that you didn't find success with other available software, which might have tempted me to invest in even more "rescue-ware". Thanks again for another great and informative video. T
Thanks so much for looking in Terry
I have never used the other programs you mentioned as I have been using Topaz's almost miraculous suite of programs to "help" along my images for years now! Whether you are talking DeNoise, Sharpen, Gigapixel or the new Topaz Photo AI - the results usually are phenomenal - and no - I am not making any money either - but wouldn't mind!
I still find that the individual DeNoise, Sharpen and Gigapixel can lend one greater control over certain parameters than the Photo AI - but it's getting harder and harder to tell which is better, and Dave Kelly feels that in some respects Photo AI is now their equal if not better.
They are also really nice at Topaz and jump on any problems you have with both feet and aren't afraid to help those of us who are not as skilled as are you and Dave when it comes to either Photoshop or Photography.
Yes indeed - Topaz won the crown here with that photo. I have all three of the apps you mention (uh... like most everyone I guess๐) and I've found if ON1 doesn't fix my photo then Topaz will - and vice versa. Thanks for these insights Glyn!
Cheers for that and yeah โฆ each will work better on different images so itโs a good excuse to have them all ๐
Remini software also does a great job of fixing blurred pictures. I have been using it for some time now and most of the time it gives me satisfactory results.
You have discovered my secret for bad focus. Well done on putting together the video.
That was great thank you. I could get some use from software like this. I use speedlights in my soft boxes for studio work and don't have a modelling light and occasionally get soft images which is frustrating.
Glad it was useful Tim
That's pretty impressive. Did you try bringing the tip of the nose a bit more into focus (ie a bit more DOF?)
Thatโs insane mate! Bit of a game changer, but as you say, nice to have, but hope you never have to use!
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Thanks you, do you know a plugin or software to convert images to paints ? Thanks a lot for the video
Thanks for this. I don't have Lightroom or similar products as I cannot justify the expense for the few photos I take; can Topaz be used as a stand alone product?
You mentioned trying the face enhancement option in Luminar Neo. The reason it looked so different is because that option swaps out the eyes in your image for someone else's eyes.
Face โenhancementโ swaps out eyes? What the? Ah wellโฆresults were bad on the other options used anyway ๐โโ๏ธ
Such a horrible idea Luminar came up with... :)
Agreed! I've been with Luminar Neo (Skylum) since its inception; and they have miraculously failed in improving this critical realm for photography. It's low to mediocre, at best. However, I took the same chance and tried Topaz Sharpen AI and was blown away. They've got this down pat for sure!
I will be more careful about discarding my favorite but blurry images from now on. Thanks for this softwares review.
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Great review! Thanks!
What will you next step, how to keep it in Lightroom? Will it be possible to convert back to DNG, or out is not really necessary?
Thank you so much; VERY kind
Tks for info
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I've been using Nero Image Upscaler to upscale my AI art and I'm really impressed with the results. It's free and it's easy to use.
I use several sharpening and noise programs. They donโt all work the same for every image as you stated in the video. But if I could have only one it would be Topaz.
Yeah with you there
Literally just had an email in my inbox advertising some AI sharpening software and I thought I wonder if it's any good and as if by magic I had an email notification to say you had just uploaded a video on the very subject - spooky but awesome - don't need to look any further now ๐
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Over confident mistmistakes - yep, been there and very annoyed with self. Topaz is my go-to, because in nature, things are fast and it's easy to get blue or out of focus. However, I've found Topaz de-noise makes a better job of sharpening than "Sharpen." As you say, it depends on the image. I always use layers and would have only sharpened the eyes in your image, as you did. Odd artifacts get into images after processing, so it pays to carefully check the whole image. Thanks for the comparison.
It is not a good idea to take a single photo of a subject. Wonderful contribution. Thank you
Great comparison Glyn. I know there are no miracles but I wonder if thereโs a reliable solution for severely out of focus images? Cheersโฆ
Topaz is awesome. Use all the time.
Great video! I haven't been able to play with topaz as much as I'd like (simplw hobbyist and hate editing). I'm starting to notice Photo AI isn't working as well compared to the individual denoise and sharpen programs (at least for photos that need serious fixes). Has anyone else noticed this or am i missing something in the Photo AI program? I was under the impression it was all their software put into one module. What's the best workflow if one needed to fix noise and sharpness with the individual programs?
I use the old Sony a6000 camera with a kit lens and don't want to buy a new one, but I also use Topaz. With this setup, I have sold pictures to magazines and featured in Flicker Explore.
Superb
Topaz products are my go to to fix problems and rarely fails me.
And there's Remini, which works with a different method to this, has amazing results for portraits, but it can invent detail that wasn't there in the first place, like change the colour of the spectacle frames (according to one review I saw).
Skin texture is lost with Remini
Hi Glynn l am throughly enjoying your video. I was wondering what printer you are using. Thank again for a great video
Thanks Tom. Re the printer. I'm using a Canon pro 300
You must to try Remini. Please do a video about this. Hugs from BR. :)
what printer and sheets do u use? many thanks in advance
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Mi'm doing it manually in PH with masks and blending. Maybe I will try the third app.
Amazing stuff! Never heard about Topaz Sharpen AI before? Is it for free?
Topaz Sharpen AI is excellent. On most slightly blurred or low res upscaled images it works really well. Now and again, on a few photos for which there was really no hope left, it did miracles.
It general, if sharpness is the only issue, Topaz can turn the resulting image off a $200 lens into into the result you would get off a $2000 lens.
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I use Topaz Sharpening AI. It's pretty good but can also be very tricky and produce some very odd results.
I've found Topaz superb and it's great at serious memory hungry images. I had a 5x4 image with an important part slightly out of focus and it did a fantastic job. Only downside?... Not great at hair. That throws it off... They are still working on that. But faces?. Wow!. And it doesn't alter the face like some A1 does. It does what it says on the box. Brings it back into focus.... And no I don't work for the company.....
I've got old home movies shot in the 90s with low light conditions. Can this software do some justice to those old home movies? Or, is there an alternative that would handle such projects better?
I have Sharpen AI - excellent software!
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Great video. New subscriber here. I'm curious if this software could be used to "de-censor" something like, oh say...Japanese Adult Videos?
...asking for a friend.