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Title: AI Gigapixel Image enlarger Anyone use it? Recommend?
Post by: Stonefirewon on January 24, 2019, 14:16

Topaz AI Gigapixel

Anyone familiar with it?

Would you recommend it?

Thanks for any feedback.

Title: Re: AI Gigapixel Image enlarger Anyone use it? Recommend?
Post by: photoboxer on January 24, 2019, 15:56

Interesting, but only true in our dreams :)
false promises:
https://youtu.be/ICqNXM5mPqI?t=272 (https://youtu.be/ICqNXM5mPqI?t=272)

Title: Re: AI Gigapixel Image enlarger Anyone use it? Recommend?
Post by: Stonefirewon on January 28, 2019, 18:03

Thanks. My german is a little rusty like in I can count the words i know in german on my two hands. LOL Care to translate?

Title: Re: AI Gigapixel Image enlarger Anyone use it? Recommend?
Post by: Uncle Pete on January 29, 2019, 11:03

Review and link to a trial version. If you have a stack of images and don't need this for a long time, maybe get them all ready, download the trial and process. Then see if you are pleased with the results, and buy.

If you have an older computer and not much memory and older video card that's not 8GB you might find processing takes some time.

http://www.andybellphotography.com/blog/2018/08/22/ai-gigapixel-review-worth-the-cost/ (http://www.andybellphotography.com/blog/2018/08/22/ai-gigapixel-review-worth-the-cost/)

Title: Re: AI Gigapixel Image enlarger Anyone use it? Recommend?
Post by: Sedge on April 12, 2019, 13:45

Topaz may make good products, but their "customer service" is terrible.  I recently attempted to purchase AI Gigapixel, but their site rejected my credit card.  I knew there was nothing wrong with the card, but I called the card company and verified it just to be sure.  Topaz doesn't have a support telephone number (or any phone number that I could find for that matter), so I sent them a "help" e-mail.  I described that I wanted to purchase their product, and that their website incorrectly rejected my credit card (I wanted to use my business credit card only).  It's been a week now with no reply.  Very frustrating experience!

Title: Re: AI Gigapixel Image enlarger Anyone use it? Recommend?
Post by: cascoly on April 13, 2019, 11:23

it doesnt improve every picture, but on most it does give an improvement - i upsize by 150%, then reduce to original

it's slow, but i just run it on another computer,or set up to run overnight

Title: Re: AI Gigapixel Image enlarger Anyone use it? Recommend?
Post by: FranckM on May 23, 2019, 03:32

i use it ! very good software and very powerfull.

Title: Re: AI Gigapixel Image enlarger Anyone use it? Recommend?
Post by: Chichikov on May 26, 2019, 08:05

Photoshop Size up + Sharpening do the trick (better)

Title: Re: AI Gigapixel Image enlarger Anyone use it? Recommend?
Post by: dbvirago on May 26, 2019, 13:15

I needed to take a 12mp shot from a point and shoot, which needed further cropping and turn it into a 30x30 inch print. I used a trial of Gigapixel as part of that workflow. The results were fantastic, but I did a lot of work on that image and I can't say how much affect the software had on the final image.