Topaz Photo AI

Artificial intelligence can be quite beneficial to all of us, and even though we're still in the experimentation stage, these types of algorithms can empower and improve multiple facets of one's work. Photographers have been impacted by this: computational photography is gaining more ground, and AI is starting to become relevant for photo editing, too.

AI algorithms serve to make life easier, and in photo editing, they aim to make workflows more efficient — at least in theory. Topaz Photo AI is an attempt to put all of this into practice, delivering a full suite of AI capabilities to help users enhance the clarity and presentation of their images.

Sharpening your photos is best done in small, but calculated doses. It's fun to turn the sharpness slider all the way up — after all, the clearer, the better....right? Striking a balance is what's essential, so it's especially interesting to see how an AI algorithm would approach this.

Drop a photo in, and the Autopilot function will trigger. The prerogatives of the function can be modified later, but by default, it'll identify the subject, then apply a number of fixes based on the recognition. For instance, the tool can attempt to sharpen your still, enhance its resolution, remove noise, recover a subject's face details from a portrait, as well as upscale the entire photo.

Though the AI is designed to work automatically, users can step in and modify the adjustments more to their liking. Whether it is noise removal, sharpening, or upscaling, users will be able to tweak the parameters to their liking, so their photo comes out just right.

As for the results, there's a noticeable boost in overall picture clarity upon relying on the AI capabilities of this program. Though it may seem to oversharpen in some situations, you can always intervene and tone it down a little. But the clarity improvement is there.

Topaz Photo AI is a tool whose AI algorithm can help you focus on the more creative part of the editing process: by handling the clarity of your stills by itself, you can dedicate more time to other adjustments.