What's new in Topaz Sharpen AI 4.1.0
Mar 25, 2022
- Changes:
- New improved “Select” models
- “Select” options (except custom) are now preserved when using Actions, Smart Objects, or Last Filter in Photoshop
- The standard model and each blur type will each keep track of their manually set parameters independently
- The manual model selector will once again show models that require a file to be downloaded in italics
- A dialog will appear on startup and upon changing AI Processor to download all model files needed to run all your models, if applicable. This dialog can also be opened via the Help menu
- External Editor instances will now merge with each other
- JPEG quality slider now goes from 1-100 and is 1:1 with the actual quality level (previously the 1-10 slider would be mapped onto 25-95)
- When downloading models Just In Time, the progress bar will hide when opening up a dialog, and re-open when the dialog closes
- Using right click in mask mode will perform the opposite action to the selected one (add vs subtract)
- Fixes:
- Fixed errors coming from certain folders not existing
- Fixed processing errors causing a loop if auto update preview is on in comparison view
- Fixed manual update preview button being disabled in mask mode
- Fixed issue causing plugin mode to sometimes ask about installing plugin files on startup
- Fixed scrolling to change masking parameters not working
- Fixed issues with comparison view frames potentially not having a model selected
- Fixed external editor not displaying a warning when opening invalid file types, such as PSD files
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 4.0.2 (Feb 24, 2022)
- Changes:
- Fixed processing error when using Standard model on machines with older CPUs(that don’t support AVX instruction sets)
- Opening Sharpen in standalone after moving it on Mac will automatically update the lightroom template with the new path
- Fixed issues with auto model suggesting versions of models that aren’t compatible with the current version of Sharpen
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 4.0.0 (Feb 16, 2022)
- Changes:
- Native M1 support
- New “Standard” AI model
- New installation flow for mac
- New theme for the app
- Improved logic for choosing AI Model automatically
- Added ability to use eraser end of tablet stylus to erase mask
- Fixes:
- Fixed batch processing not completing successfully when using auto masks that haven’t been processed yet
- Fixed issues arising from changing auto mask model or selecting refine, while an auto mask is already running-
- Fixed zooming in/out not enabling the update preview button
- Fixed mask overlay sometimes not appearing until the preview is updated
- Fixed crash with certain Nvidia GPUs.
- Fixed “foggy” results on windows computers using intel GPU to process, on “Normal” variants of models
- Fixed recommended model being stuck on “Detecting…” on small images (<128px in either dimension)
- Fixed various UI elements of file list getting reset when scrolling a lot (such as time taken to process image)
- Fixed crash when applying watermark to very small images
- Fixed a couple hotkeys and UI elements appearing in External and Plugin mode, when they should only apply to Standalone
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 3.3.6 (Feb 5, 2022)
- Fixed some permissions issues when installing on windows
- Fixed authentication issue for certain operating system versions
- Fixed wrong file suffix being applied while using auto model
- Fixed issue with plugin mode not always loading all the correct settings
- Fixed mismatched settings being shown after switching from comparison view
- Fixed issue with zooming in via hotkey
- Fixed a rare processing error
- Enabled removing images while in masking mode
- Improved logic on when to display scrollbar in file list
- Added snooze button to update dialog
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 3.3.5 (Dec 17, 2021)
- Fixes:
- Fixed image quality issues (pixel shift and halos) in majority of cases (updating the current model version)
- Fixed trial mode warning appearing in the wrong situations
- Fixed update dialogs not appearing
- Fixed crash when using edge aware in masking
- Fixed login dialog not closing when it should under specific conditions
- Fixed grain slider not re-generating the preview
- Fixed grain slider not marking comparison view frames as not updated
- Fixed issues with update preview button when AUP is off
- Fixed various issues with updating comparison view frames
- Fixed update preview button not updating when switching comparison view frames
- Fixed updated status not resetting when AUP is off
- Fixed comparison view preview status flickering when changing settings with AUP off
- Fixed logic for opening in standalone vs external editor mode
- Fixed auto mask not being respected when batch processing
- Fixed images not being removed from file list after batch processing in external editor mode
- Fixed users with expired licenses but own 3.3.X being placed in trial mode
- Fixed plugin mode giving processing errors in certain situations
- Changes:
- Model versions now appear in more places
- Models that need to be downloaded are now italicized in the model selector
- Added link to the learning center in the help menu
- Reworded welcome message to not acknowledge tutorials
- Reworded “Updates not available” dialog
- Exit out of file saving mode when opening a file after processing completes
- Switching to comparison view now marks all selected rows to manual model selection, not just the visible one
- Checking an image while in comparison view sets it manual model selection
- Disabled model manager preferences panel
- Mask mode now starts with the subtract brush selected
- Registry entries and plist files are now deleted when Sharpen is uninstalled
- Additional validation steps for resource and models directories within the installer
- Improvements to how mac links plugins
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 3.3.3 (Nov 30, 2021)
- Fixed various image quality issues on older hardware
- Fixed auto model parameters not being set correctly
- Fixed auto model remaining on when the preview panel opens in comparison view
- Fixed comparison view frames not storing/loading model parameters
- Fixed comparison view frames not using their own settings when generating the preview
- Fixed auto model being ignored during batch processing when comparison view is active
- Fixed expired license dialog appearing for users with a license that’s expired after 3.3.0 released
- Fixed all models list sometimes incorrectly showing the top model as selected
- Fixed crash when using edge aware to refine a mask
- Fixed various display issues when downloading models from the manager
- Fixed downloading models when generating a preview causing progress bar to go above 100%
- Fixed error when needing to download models while processing images
- Fixed a permission error on Windows about writing some preference files
- Fixed external editors opening in standalone mode
- Fixed view selector being enabled in masking mode
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 3.3.2 (Nov 20, 2021)
- Fixes:
- Fixed issue preview sometimes doesn’t update
- Fixed some preview and image quality issues
- Fixed in-app updater
- Fixed app requiring admin on Windows
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 3.3.1 (Nov 11, 2021)
- Fixed users not being automatically logged in after upgrading their app
- Fixed an innocuous error message appearing on mac during install
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 3.3.0 (Nov 10, 2021)
- Major Changes:
- New model selector
- New preferences panel
- New model management system
- New auto mask models (and removed the old one)
- New “Select” section in side panel
- New interface for masking mode
- The offline installer for windows no longer needs a legacy version
- New update feed dialog
- Changes:
- You can now open images while in mask mode
- Generating mask previews no longer blocks the UI, instead shows spinners
- App startup is slightly faster
- Disabled escape and enter hotkeys in plugin/external mode while a dialog is open
- Includes new main toolbar design from DeNoise
- The suggested model is now the “Very Blurry” variant on large images
- Removed decimals from overlay opacity slider
- Minor graphical fixes/improvements
- Swapped brush hardness for brush softness
- Disabled selecting, adding, and removing images buttons while processing
- Updated text for when auto params haven’t been determined yet
- Fixes:
- Fixed AI Processor sometimes reverting to “Auto”
- Fixed undo/redo not re-generating the mask preview when AUP is off
- Fixed mask opacity scroll-based shortcut not working properly on mac
- Fixed opening images sometimes using the previous image’s auto model/params
- Fixed several instances of comparison view not disabling auto model
- Fix startup dialogs replacing other dialogs - now they appear on top
- Fixed the masking brush outer circle showing the softness rather than the sample area when edge aware is on
- Fixed dragging images into Sharpen while in masking mode would appear as if the mask was now being applied to the new image
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 3.2.2 (Aug 31, 2021)
- Changes:
- Shortcuts in tooltips are white instead of grey to be consistent with menu items
- Added auto detect option to processor preference
- Changed the “Disable Model Downloads” preference into “Allow Model Downloads”
- Fixes:
- Fixed jump when zooming in on small images from 0.5
- Fixed downloading models being disabled regardless of preference
- Fixed undoing selecting/deselecting automatically detected objects in masking mode not working
- Fixed GPS EXIF data not being saved
- Fixed memory leak
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 3.2.1 (Aug 10, 2021)
- Changes:
- Added preference to disable downloading models
- Additionally, less devices will need to download any models in the first place
- Preferences dialog now scrolls if there isn’t enough room to display it, and has collapsible sections
- Fixes:
- Fixed masking brush stroke being interrupted disappearing temporarily when the preview updates
- Fixed several issues happening after deleting a non-selected image while the first image is selected
- Fixed removing all images not de-selecting those images
- Performance fixes for certain intel iGPUs on windows, GPUs on mac 10.14 and older, 2GB GPUs on Mac 10.15 and higher and on windows 10
- Fixed DLL errors appearing on Windows 7
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 2.2.3 (Feb 17, 2021)
- Added support for new image file types:
- New RAW formats: ARI, CR3
- New non-RAW formats: BMP, HEIC, PPM, PGM, PBM, PNM, TGA, and WEBP
- Added In-App rating system:
- If you experience any issues with output in the program, feel free to send feedback by clicking on the faces at the bottom right of the preview
- Added ability to load non-ASCII file names from Lightroom:
- For instance, Japanese/Chinese/Korean, etc file names should work now
- Changed Windows installer so it’s admin only:
- Should resolve various issues non-admin users have had in the past
- May require full uninstall/reinstall if you had it installed as non-admin before
- Fixed preview scale so it adjusts to your screen display scale properly:
- Images may look smaller than before if you have a display scale over 100%
- Fixed various color/loading issues for RAW files
- Fixed crash on Mac related to file logger
- Implemented using the scroll wheel to zoom
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 2.2.2 (Dec 11, 2020)
- Multiple stability updates for the installers
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 2.2.1 (Nov 21, 2020)
- Fixed the frequent image must be loaded issues when using auto mode
- Fixed vertical lines in images when using GPU processing mode
- Fixed issue where batch processing would stop/fail on certain images
- Fixed a potential crash when previews go out of bounds
- Fixed the installer dropping the beta plugin
- – We also now delete the beta plugin if it exists, so installing 2.2.1 should fix it if you haven’t fixed it manually
- Fixed a potential crash from the file logger
- Fixed a few cases where the file list view would reflect incorrect settings
- Fixed selection issue when deleting single images from the file list
- Photoshop should now select the previous mode if opening in comparison view
- Reworded the bottom panel on the opening screen to fit on smaller screens
- Reworded parts of the tutorial to match new UI
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 2.2.0 (Nov 12, 2020)
- Added new models that work better on noisy images:
- Enable new models by toggling on the “Extra Noise Suppression” option under the settings sliders
- Added comparison view:
- Should work the same as in DeNoise AI
- Added option to move controls to left side:
- You can toggle this in preferences
- Added tutorial/demo image area on the bottom of the opening screen
- Updated UI to be consistent with Gigapixel
- Updated installers:
- In-app updates should now go faster from 2.2.1 onwards due to splitting large downloads
- Installer now uses native OS interface which should improve compatibility
- Mac installer now displays an error if installing on an unsupported OS
- Full installers should now always install fully and not rely on currently installed components
- Changed default sliders and mode settings to the settings that were last used in the application
- Changed previews so that they cancel when slider values are changed
- Fixed a crash when files with large XMP data were saved as JPG
- Fixed the preview label saying “Preview” when it was actually the original image in some cases
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 2.1.8 (Oct 28, 2020)
- Fixed minor authentication issues
- Added ability to delay updates
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 2.1.7 (Sep 4, 2020)
- Fixed an issue where certain files would not open from third-party plugins
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 2.1.6 (Sep 3, 2020)
- Fixed issue where dragging the navigator/preview to the right side would crash
- Fixed an issue where Photoshop last filter settings were not saved between invocations
- Fixed a potential crash using auto mode
- Fixed in-app update downloads not running due to bad paths caused by usernames with non-ASCII characters
- Fixed erroneously loading files with unsupported colorspaces:
- Mainly, Apple Wide Color Sharing Profile is explicitly not supported when coming in from Photoshop.
- Fixed update button not enabling in certain cases when masking
- Fixed a crash in masking
- Fixed a case where using auto could append the wrong model suffix
- Fixed scroll bar in the file list getting too small with large amounts of images
- Fixed certain runtime dlls not being included
- Changed right panel so it never hides itself
- Updated installer framework which should hopefully resolve some online installer issues
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 2.1.5 (Aug 30, 2020)
- Fixed external editors not saving back to their host properly
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 2.1.4 (Aug 28, 2020)
- Fixed trials requiring a user to log in again after purchasing
- Fixed various crashes when handling invalid images
- Fixed various crashes when masking RAW images with crop metadata
- Changed authentication logic to support upgrades
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 2.1.1 (Aug 5, 2020)
- Fixed Photoshop values not being saved properly when re-entering the plugin
- Fixed various Photoshop irregularities that caused differences between standalone and plugin
- Fixed various file list view oddities
- Fixed batch mode settings applying automatically when switching between rows.
- Fixed selecting arbitrary rows instead of everything not saving correctly in some cases.
- Fixed potential bug where settings do not apply properly when saving multiple images with auto active.
- Fixed crash when unable to load files required for auto subject detection
- Fixed Re-Install Photoshop Plugins option on Windows
- Fixed being unable to run the plugin re-installer more than once
- Added Re-Install Photoshop Plugins option in the Help menu for Mac
- Changed external editor mode save button to Apply/Cancel
- Changed various toggle buttons to be the right blue color
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 2.1.0 (May 24, 2019)
- New features:
- A new option to disable anonymous data collection has been added to the preference window
- New ‘Allowed graphics memory consumption’ control to set the allowed amount of graphics memory that the application can consume while processing images. This may help users that experience crashing while processing images. This setting is only applicable when the processing mode is ‘GPU’. This can be accessed in the ‘Preferences’ window
- When processing files, the number of files being processed will be displayed in the wait message
- When processing files, the number of files being processed will be displayed on the title bar so that progress can be tracked even when the application is minimized
- When processing files, the current percentage of completion is displayed on the right side of the output item box
- An overlay with an icon is displayed over the input thumbnail to indicate that it can be clicked to view the original file outside of the application
- Changes:
- Revised application user interface
- The application version and the number of days remaining in a trial (if the application is in trial mode) are now displayed in the top toolbar instead of the application title bar
- The icon to display the preview of the input or output file has been replaced with a hyperlink that displays the path and name of the file.
- When the progress bar reaches completion for a file, it will no longer be displayed continuously
- The “Processing”, “Output”, and “File Format” sections in the right panel can now be collapsed
- The “Original”, “Preview”, and Brightness/Contrast warning labels in the preview panel will disappear if the mouse cursor is placed over them allowing those parts of the image to be displayed
- Improved processing models
- Fixes:
- Windows - For displays that use a high scale (to increase the size of text on high resolution displays), the product tour may become impossible to close
- The Application may fail to install or run when folder or file names contain non-latin characters
- MacOS: Saving output file to root folder could crash the application
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 1.1.3 (Apr 3, 2019)
- Changes:
- The login window has been revised
- The title bar will not indicate "0 Days Remaining" for users who have not begun their 30-day trials
- Fixes:
- Attempting to login to the application can result in a "Cannot connect to server" error
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 1.1.2 (Mar 27, 2019)
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 1.1.1 (Mar 22, 2019)
- Fixes:
- Improved processing models
- Attempting to login to the application can result in a "Cannot connect to server" error
- MacOS: The application may not be able to establish a connection to authenticate ownership
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 1.1.0 (Mar 22, 2019)
- Fixes:
- Improved AI processing models
New in Topaz Sharpen AI 1.0.9 (Mar 11, 2019)
- Fixes:
- We fixed an issue with the in-app update process that prevented some users from receiving files from the 1.0.8 update.