This is especially evident in the sky, which now looks less blue and purple. Before and after using Adjust Lighting and Balance Color in Topaz Photo AI V2īalance Color has removed the slight magenta color cast (something my Canon EOS R5 always seems to add) by adding green across every tonal region. Straight out of camera on the left, Adjust Lighting and Balance Color on the right. Let's add Balance Color to the same images from earlier and see what we get. Balance Color includes two adjustable sliders: Temperature and Opacity. It automatically adjusts color temperature and tint to remove color cast, then makes selective color toning adjustments to warm and cool different regions of an image for improved color harmony and balance. Your information will be kept private, promise Balance Colorīalance Color is a "smart" white balance tool. This would also be a good baseline for additional tonal adjustments and color grading. Again, I think the results look natural, balanced, and thankfully not overdone. Unlike the first image, this time Adjust Lighting has reduced the brightness of the sky and darkened the foreground to create a more balanced exposure. Before and after using Adjust Lighting tool in Topaz Labs Photo AI Image on the left below is straight out of camera, image on the right is the same image with Adjust Lighting applied. Let's try Adjust Lighting with another landscape image. Would be a good baseline for additional dodging and burning edits in Lightroom and/or Photoshop. The result looks balanced and natural, without going overboard into faux HDR. Overall, Photo AI did a good job of brightening the background without clipping highlights in the bright sky. The shadow lift is a little strong for my taste, but that can be dialed-back by lowering its strength. Straight out of camera raw file on the left, TIFF image with Adjust Lighting on the right. Here's a before and after comparison using Adjust Lighting, where I simply enabled the tool, with no additional edits. Think of it as a "smart" exposure tool that adjusts highlights, midtones and shadows to create a more nuanced, professional look. The tool is especially useful with underexposed, overexposed and backlit images. Adjust LightingĪdjust Lighting adjusts exposure by brightening and darkening regions of an image to improve tonal balance. Topaz Labs has had no editorial involvement in this review. At the time of this writing, these new tools only function with TIFF images, not DNG, but Topaz claims they will update the app with DNG support in the near future.ĭisclaimer: I purchased Photo AI with my own money. I've been doing some experiments with the earliest publicly-released version of Photo AI V2 (v2.0.0) and have some initial thoughts about the new Adjust Lighting and Balance Color tools. Over the past year, Topaz Labs has consistently updated Photo AI on a weekly basis delivering more than fifty updates that have further enhanced and polished the software. Overall, I found Photo AI to be a powerful corrective tool for denoising, sharpening, reconstructing, and upscaling especially with older DSLR digital images captured using high ISO values and soft focus. I reviewed Photo AI back when it was first introduced, and also restored some vintage photos to see what it could do. The new version includes improved Photoshop compatibility (upscaling is now supported), improved raw file support, new sharpening and denoising AI models, plus two new AI-driven tools: Adjust Lighting and Balance Color. Topaz Labs has released a new v2 version of Photo AI, their one-stop photo enhancement software for macOS and Windows.
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