Comments on: Jerking the Lens. Topaz Sharpen AI Stabilize to the Rescue! https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2020/09/29/jerking-the-lens-topaz-sharpen-ai-stabilize-to-the-rescue/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:44:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2020/09/29/jerking-the-lens-topaz-sharpen-ai-stabilize-to-the-rescue/comment-page-1/#comment-1798582 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:27:49 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=69549#comment-1798582 In reply to Adam.

Hey Adam,

Thanks for the tips. I still need to learn a ton more.

with love, artie

]]> By: Adam https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2020/09/29/jerking-the-lens-topaz-sharpen-ai-stabilize-to-the-rescue/comment-page-1/#comment-1798576 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:41:08 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=69549#comment-1798576 Glad you are finding Topaz’s products useful. They are pretty impressive and I routinely used DeNoise AI as part of my workflow when I had my a7riv. It’s seeing less routine use with the R5 images, though it still has a place and in some respects and I like the combination NR/sharpening better than Sharpen AI. Once you’ve played around with it for a while, try taking it off auto. With DeNoise AI, and and simple OOF backgrounds I frequently find that it creates artifacts or leaves some areas without NR. Using the older and faster AI Clear algorithm seems to work better for those cases. Grid artifacting is a known but separate entity. If you encounter that, consider the help sheet: https://help.topazlabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038893192-Artifacting-in-DeNoise-AI. The “low light” feature is fairly good for images where there is a lot of color noise and when you are feeling brave invoke the masking features as these are extremely powerful.

AI sharpen is fairly good as you’ve demonstrated in you focus recovery. I find the default settings are way too sharp especially in stabilize often resulting in specular features or occasional haloing. I find it is useful for image recovery (mostly for web) as well as final sharpening for print.

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