Just this week, the Topaz Labs team announced a minor update for the Topaz Photo AI photo editing software that brought it up to version 3.5.1 with a mixed bag of bug fixes and improvements that will better improve the user experience.
Citing an announcement post shared via the Topaz Labs blog, we can gather that the v3.5.1 update to Topaz Photo AI brings the following changes along with it:
– Fix Super Focus quick preview progress display
– Fix local processing showing undefined eta for Super Focus
– Immediately update credit count after Super Focus in the cloud completes
– Prevent escape key on Mac from cancelling super focus processing
– Move AI Gen toggle to Preferences → General menu
– Re-introduce close warning dialog when in plugin mode
– Prevent demo images from opening after retrieving features when setting is off
– Fix demo images not showing when enabled through preferences
– Update messaging when only a single selection is made for applying AutoPilot
– Fix AP confirmation prompt appearing when resuming session
– Fix HEIC export
– Fix hitting enter to submit prefix or suffix starting export
– Fix ‘conformation’ typo in Support Dialog
– Automatic Lensfun Update
This update doesn’t really bring any new features but rather focuses on refining Super Focus processing of photographs whether that’s happening on-device in the quick preview or in the cloud. The update also improves session save behavior and enhances HEIC file exporting, among other things.
Topaz Photo AI has become a staple in many photographers’ software suites, including my own. Among its most powerful features are the ability to fix lens and motion blur imperfections, tweak color and lighting, and enhance the resolution of lower-resolution images.
With artificial intelligence powering the features in Topaz Photo AI, you can do more with the click of a button and save a lot of time compared to making similar image adjustments yourself, slider by slider. Of course, we should note that you can make changes to Topaz Photo AI’s edits if you decide to take manual control.
Some of the ways I use Topaz Photo AI are fixing focus when my camera lens appears to just barely miss the eyes on an animal or to add dreamier lighting to an otherwise dull RAW image file when I don’t have the time to make edits myself in Adobe Lightroom. Most of the time, the output results are stunning without any intervention on my part.
Those interested in giving Topaz Photo AI a try can purchase a copy from the Topaz Labs website for $199; however, patient folks may find that frequent sales bring that price down to $149 on occasion, so it may be worth waiting for if you can’t fit this into your budget just yet.