What's new in Topaz Gigapixel AI 7.1.3
May 2, 2024
- Fixed an issue where pinch to zoom capped at fit zoom levels
- Fixed an issue which caused model flashing when toggling legacy models
- Fixed an issue where clicking an already chosen item re-loaded the image
- Fixed an issue where Shift + F (show detected faces) would not work in the comparison view
- Automatic Lensfun Update
New in Topaz Gigapixel AI 7.1.2 (Apr 28, 2024)
- Gigapixel’s EULA 12 was updated for commercial usage
- Add camera profile for the Sony ILCE-9M3
- Updated components and icons to bring them in-line with Wonder UI
- Disabled zoom shortcuts when the Recovery mode is active
- Disabled the tooltip for comparison in recovery
- Fixed an issue with Photoshop sometimes returning 1 for the PPI
- Fixed an issue with some TGA files not being able to open due to mismatching format
- Fixed an issue where clicking preview caused re-rendering
- Fixed an issue with scale resetting after rotation in crop
- Fixed an issue where certain DNGs would cause the app to crash
- Fixed an issue where deselected faces were not showing
- Fixed an issue with status sticking while blending faces in Face Recovery
- Fixed an issue that caused the cache to exceed normal memory usage limits
- Fixed an issue where flipping the aspect ratio in the crop tool shrunk the selection
- Fixed an issue where no scale was selected on custom width and height
- Fixed an issue with the plugin not closing if no images are loaded
- Fixed an output size misalignment issue in the open file view
- Fixed zoom levels being reversed in recovery for small images
- Fixed multiple text and icon misalignment issues
- Fixed some dialogs overlapping the title bar on windows
New in Topaz Gigapixel AI 7.1.1 (Apr 15, 2024)
- Fixed visual issue where toggles would look on when they were off
- Fixed wrong link being used for help article
- Fixed uncommon permissions issue on Mac
- Fixed being able to pull up file list while in comparison view
- Fixed recovery warning always saying “small”
- Fixed comparison view incorrectly keeping auto model flag enabled
- Fixed various button hover states, spacing, and icon sizes
- Fixed auto settings not re-applying when switching between models
New in Topaz Gigapixel AI 7.1.0 (Apr 11, 2024)
- New Recovery diffusion-based upscaling model (Beta) for recovering images under 1MP by intelligently simulating new details. You will need 8GB+ of VRAM for this model.
- New Text & Shapes model for images with hard edges, curves, shapes, and text in many languages
- New Low Resolution v2 model (Beta) which excels at low resolution upscales across the board
- Model Comparison View has been added to help you quickly compare models and find the best pick for your upscale. This view mode will continue to be supported in future updates.
- New standardized Topaz UI framework, with updated colors and icons across all Topaz Labs app for a unified, streamlined look.
New in Topaz Gigapixel AI 7.0.5 (Mar 28, 2024)
- Added an alert for export completion
- Added error status for export failure due to missing output folder
- Disabled some shortcuts while exporting images
- Fixed current image closing instead of desired image when using right click menu on Mac
- Fixed wrong file name being displayed on close image prompt
- Fixed Ctrl+Click sometimes selecting multiple images in open file list
- Fixed current image being set incorrectly upon closing previous current image
- Fixed invert file selection not working
- Fixed auto settings not being highlighted
New in Topaz Gigapixel AI 7.0.4 (Mar 14, 2024)
- Reworked RAW flow to support more optimizations
- DNG export is no longer supported
- Optimized image loading and selection flows
- Should drastically speed up time to load images
- Personal benchmark loading 100,000 images: 7.0.3 - 2 minutes 20 seconds; 7.0.4 - 11 seconds
- Optimized exports with alpha channel in some cases
- If alpha is all the same value, it will no longer process via model
- Added native right click menus for Mac
- Fixed issue where crop values weren’t rounded correctly
- Fixed some preferences page’s reset button behavior
- Fixed switching scale modes in crop causing preview issues
- Fixed file list resizing when images are added/removed
- Fixed file names sticking in the open file dialog
- Fixed scale being allowed to go below minimum value (0.2x)
New in Topaz Gigapixel AI 7.0.3 (Feb 29, 2024)
- Optimized image loading and control editing flows
- Optimized memory allocations when compressing images
- Fixed save options not changing when using compression and quality sliders
- Fixed zoom in hotkey working in crop mode
- Fixed typing current slider value not working
- Fixed fit zoom not working at specific resolutions + display scales
- Should drastically speed up time and memory usage when loading images
- Personal benchmark loading 20,000 images:
- 7.0.2 - 38 minutes + crash, ~140GB memory usage
- 7.0.3 - 10 seconds, 1.2GB after engine runs
- This can lead to drastically less CPU usage after processing
- Personal benchmark compressing 11648x8736 image:
- 7.0.2 - 25 seconds
- 7.0.3 - ~500 milliseconds
New in Topaz Gigapixel AI 7.0.2 (Feb 15, 2024)
- Updated ExifTool from 12.69 to 12.76
- Added warning when upscale goes past 6x
- Added Close All Images option to right click menu
- Changed default suffix to -gigapixel instead of -topaz
- This change only affects new installs
- Changed cursor when hovering navigator to a +
- Changed color of Lines model to make it look less like an error
- Changed how thumbnail orientation is handled to fix some edge cases
- Changed icon on the login success page
- Fixed issue where not all faces would be selected for face selection
- Fixed WEBP images not getting image dimensions from metadata
- Fixed wrong file being highlighted in explorer/finder after a file name conflict
- Fixed arrow keys being able to navigate past the end of the imported files
- Fixed orientation for some older Canon files
- Fixed export options sliders not updating until released
- Fixed issue where deselecting current image deselected all images
- Fixed issue where save statuses were updated for the wrong image
New in Topaz Gigapixel AI 7.0.1 (Feb 1, 2024)
- Alpha channel is now enhanced with models instead of being naively upscaled
- Improved handling of updating from non-standard Gigapixel 6 installs
- Fixed PNG not saving PPI information correctly
- Fixed custom DCP profiles not applying to output DNG files
- Updated lensfun definitions
- Updated camera profiles for several cameras
- Also updates HUE/LUT information for various cameras
- Major support changes for the following:
- Panasonic 95D
- Hasselblad H5D-40
- Sony ILCE-6700
- Sony DSLR-A900
- Olympus TG-7
New in Topaz Gigapixel AI 7.0.0 (Jan 18, 2024)
- Major changes:
- Updated AI engine which should allow better compatibility and faster processing
- Added Standard and High Fidelity v2 models
- These models will eventually replace v1 models in time. If you have quality issues, please let us know.
- Refreshed the UI with new design and controls
- Updated preferences with new options
- Note: This will fully reset your preferences
- Notable additions:
- Added panning and pinch to zoom gestures in preview
- Added updated RAW preview handling (should be closer to Photo AI)
- Added ability to capture before/after in split and side by side views
- Added ability to move the file list up and down via dragging
- Note: There is a known issue where removing/adding images causes it to snap back to the default position
- Changed logic for selections
- Changed controls to show mixed states if multiple images with different values are selected
New in Topaz Gigapixel AI 6.3.3 (Jan 25, 2023)
- Fixed HQ/Standard model artifacts on older Nvidia GPUs (GTX 900 series and below). This fixes cases where colored stripes/bands appear, as well as cases where large blocks of an image or a whole image is blurred out.
New in Topaz Gigapixel AI 6.3.2 (Jan 17, 2023)
- Changes:
- Fixed cropping not being applied on export
New in Topaz Gigapixel AI 6.3.0 (Jan 13, 2023)
- Major Changes:
- Improved Standard model with new architecture
- New HQ model for high quality input images
- “Fix compression” slider for the controllability over blocky processing or compression artifacts in Standard and HQ models
- Other Changes & Fixes:
- Faster first-time model loading speed on Mac
- Fixed face recovery processing failures on certain NVIDIA GPU models
- Reduced crashes on Intel GPUs
- And more UI fixes, e.g., preview idle in comparison view on view selection
New in Topaz Gigapixel AI 6.2.2 (Oct 26, 2022)
- Fixed Crop button not working on mac
- Fixed rainbow artifacts with non-Standard Model
- Improved speed on Nvidia GPUs
- Support for Intel Arc and RTX 40 series GPUs
- Fixed some cases of wrong GPU being used
- Fixed several causes of crashing during batch processing
- Artifacts should no longer occur on macOS Ventura
New in Topaz Gigapixel AI 6.2.0 (Aug 3, 2022)
- Major Changes:
- Added auto model selection, which uses image content to compute a recommended model. This can streamline batch processing and offer a starting point for further tuning.
- Improved the quality of all models by better preserving colors and removing color related block-shaped artifacts.
- Changes:
- Enabled automatic fallback to face refinement (introduced in v5.9) on machines that do not support face recovery (introduced in v6.1)
- Fixed face recovery using CPU too often on systems with mid-range GPUs
- Greatly improved face recovery memory usage and performance
- Fixed many causes of Photoshop plugin not being found, returning errors, or not opening the app
- Fixed transparency handling in Photoshop plugin
- Fixed processing errors on certain images when using face recovery
- Fixed square artifacts in output on Mac
- Fixed various errors during batch processing
- Added more specific information to error messages
- Fixed PPI being ignored when opening images from external editor
- Renamed Reduce Color Bleed to Gamma Correction, to better describe its function
- Known Issues:
- Crop button may not work on Mac. Unselecting and reselecting the current image in the file list can fix this issue.
New in Topaz Gigapixel AI 6.1.0 (May 12, 2022)
- Major Changes:
- New Face Recovery model - see post for details
- Significantly faster processing on GTX 10, RTX 20, and RTX 30 series GPUs
- Changes:
- Fixed black crop preview in large images
- Improved wording of various tooltips/dialogs
- Added slider to control face recovery strength
- Improved blending around faces
New in Topaz Gigapixel AI 6.0.0 (May 9, 2022)
- Major Changes:
- Native Apple M1 support
- Drag and drop DMG installer for mac
- Updated visual theme
- Batch model downloading option
- Improvements:
- Reduced Very compressed model pixel shift
- Reduced GPU memory usage when face refinement enabled
- Reduced installer size
- Allowed expanding file list to show >3 files
- Cleaner edges on transparent images
- Fixes:
- Fixed preserve source format using TIFF for some JPEGs
- Fixed black lines in output at certain sizes
- Fixed crashes on some hardware combinations
- Fixed incorrect backend selection on Windows 11
- Fixed face refinement not working on machines with old GPUs
- Fixed process failing silently if face detection model not present
- Improved wording of various dialogs and tooltips
- Fixed long file names overlapping other text
- Fixed time measurement displayed in file list
- Fixed batch processing handling images out of order
- Fixed custom crop tool aspect ratio ignored
- Fixed “Save As” file suffixes not matching batch mode
- Fixed certain JPEGs showing 0x0 dimensions
- Stopped model downloads cancelling each other
- Require model downloads (fixes many hardware compatibility issues)
- Fixed photoshop plugin crashing on mac
- Fixed auto parameter calculation in plugin mode
- Fixed some cases of exiting without output when used as plugin
- Prompt for plugin installation when photoshop detected
- Known Issues:
- Crash reporter shows up after closing app
- White flashes when resizing window