However, if you have other packages with masking functions, like Photoshop, I recommend using those. The masking brush is rudimentary and can get the job done. For other scenes, like this landscape photo of water and ice, the AI could not pick out any subjects. The AI is pretty good about identifying subjects like cars or people, and gives options to include or exclude detected objects from the mask. I have had moderate success with this option. There is also a ‘Find Objects’ button to automatically find the main subjects in your photo. Standard keyboard shortcuts like the square bracket keys to resize the brush and the X key to toggle painting modes apply. The controls in the lower left set the brush size, feather, and opacity including a toggle for edge detection. Press the M key to activate the masking tools (or click the small mask icon in the lower right of the interface). Sharpen AI includes a basic masking brush with edge detection to selectively apply sharpening to an image. If Normal still feels soft, you can try Very Blurry or visit the sliders in the Settings section. It can sometimes be difficult to tell where the line is between a “normal” blurry photo and one that is “very” blurry. Select this for photos that are extremely blurry. (Sidebar: You may prefer to use a dedicated noise reduction tool to manage noise. An image that is both soft and very noisy. Make a selection based on the nature of the photo being sharpened. Watch the video around the 9 minute mark for an example of when the Auto option chooses incorrectly.īeneath the AI model buttons are additional controls These help refine the AI model. The Auto setting usually gets things right, but not always. When a photo is soft overall, this model is a good choice. This model works well to correct sharpness. For example, a wildlife photo of a bird where you try to set focus on the bird’s eye, but miss slightly. This model corrects for missed focus in a photo. Camera shake from a handheld photo, or scenes with a moving subject like a panning shot, are examples where the Motion Blur model works well. This model corrects for softness resulting from subject movement in a frame. Click the Auto button to have Sharpen AI analyze your image and select the model it thinks is best, or select one yourself. Sharpen AI has three models to control the type of sharpening applied to a photo. The Image Quality section is where you select the AI model to apply to your image. First, a sharpening model is selected, the model is fine tuned, and finally (if needed) some grain can be added to the image. There are three sections in the control panel and the workflow is top to bottom. The controls in Sharpen AI are simple yet powerful. That’s when I started looking at sharpening applications again, and Topaz Sharpen AI saved my pano. I was shooting handheld, with a longer lens, and didn’t take enough care to pause enough between each image. Unfortunately, when I was reviewing the images back in the studio, a couple of the panels of the sequence were a little soft. I was taking in a stunning sunrise and captured a hand-held pano sweep. Sharpen AI because part of my toolkit is out of need. And for landscape photographers, Sharpen AI has general sharpening for scenes that are just slightly soft (which sometimes happens with RAW files). Wildlife and portrait photographers can correct for misses in focus. If you are a handheld photographer, Topaz Sharpen AI will make the camera shake in those slightly blurry photos disappear, giving you crisp and sharp images. Sharpen AI is for many types of photographers. The level of sharpening I got from my standard micro-contrast adjustments with ON1 or Lightroom was plenty for me.
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