{"id":32152,"date":"2023-05-06T11:09:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T16:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=32152"},"modified":"2023-05-10T11:18:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T16:18:48","slug":"testing-topaz-gigapixel-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=32152","title":{"rendered":"Testing Topaz Gigapixel AI"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eyes, Before and After.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

My friend Paula lost all of her high school photos in a fire. Last week a friend posted a high school photo of her on her Facebook page. It is a very blurry photo that appears to have been copied from a high school yearbook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Paula, original photo posted on her Facebook page. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This is the “original photo” as it was posted to Paula’s Facebook page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been testing Topaz Gigapixel AI software which is supposed to enlarge and sharpen old, blurry photos. I asked Paula for permission to test the software on her photo and she said yes. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Paula, corrected photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I ran the blurry photo through Topaz to sharpen it. Then I used Photoshop to remove the greenish color cast to restore the original B&W look of a yearbook photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is some kind of strange anomaly in the bottom 20% or so of the original photo. The hair doesn’t look quite right and it does not line up. When Topaz enlarged and sharpened the photo, it restored the top 80% of the image, and did not restore the bottom 20%. You can just about draw a slightly angled line across the bottom of the image between the sharpened and unsharpened part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paula, cropped.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I cropped off the unsharpend part of the image.

There is some blotchiness in the original photo that comes through in the Topaz correction. That can be fixed in Photoshop, but I wanted you to see what Topax did to the photo without making any additional changes, other than remove the color cast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have tested Topaz Sharpen AI and Topaz Gigapixel AI. Needless to say, I highly recommend Topaz software if you are trying to rescue old family photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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