Also in this Issue:
- Monster Adapter Update
- A Virtual Zoom Lecture for your Photo Club
- In the Pipeline
Topaz AI - As Good as They Claim?
[Editor's note: This is an expanded version of an article which appeared in a recent edition of Cameracraft magazine.]
AI has been the buzzword in the technology industry for the last 30 years. But when Topaz used it as a branding for their latest collection of image enhancement tools, the phrase they should have used is “deep learning”; a technique in which a learning algorithm is trained with thousands of before & after images to allow the computer to slowly learn what a good cleanup looks like. Most people who have spent years learning how to do these things by hand in Lightroom and Photoshop may not think these new tools are anything special; for they can’t possibly improve upon a skilled retoucher. I thought I would spend a few days testing that theory.
