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#324566 28-Apr-2026 16:38
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I've owned Topaz Photo Ai for a couple of years, but thought the change to Topaz Photo and its subscription model too expensive for what it was. Plus you just never know if what you commit to a year's subscription today, will become native inside Photoshop tomorrow.  However, they bought the price way down a week or so back making a full Studio subscription just US$163 a year, and I couldn't resist.  I've been one of the Adobe Community Experts since 2009 so get all my Adobe apps for free along with 4000 Generative Credits a month, so NZ$23 a month looked reasonable and you get a bunch of apps with Studio. 

 

What I have been enjoying the most id restoring old family images for myself and friends. This is a before and after of my dad aged four:

 

 

This is mostly Topaz Mosaic plus Topaz Photo (Gigapixel works as well), but with final touches done with a Nano Banana prompt (10 credits)

 

You can up res up to six times with incredible results.  You also get aps for doing the same thing with video, but I have not tried that yet.

 

The downside is that when the Ai has to guess, it doesn't always make good choices.  The L-plate on the original tells us that the bike was not a BSA twin.  I fixed by finding out what the bike was and swapping it with Nano Banana using a reference image of the real bike.

 

 

 

 

 





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  #3485157 28-Apr-2026 16:55
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I always wondered what results were like outside of their promotional material. Impressive.




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  #3485179 28-Apr-2026 18:16
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this guy found the best. unfortunately it requires me to upload my wedding photos to the internet. NO THANK YOU! i am however looking at options i can use on my mac ... i guess i can always pay a month of Topaz and get it all done in that time ... one day ... !

 


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  #3485339 29-Apr-2026 08:10
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This is awesome! Your samples are loads better than even Mosaic's own promo material.

 

I've been doing similar digitising/archiving with Photoshop. I can get (most of) it there, but it does involve some time. Have often wondered if Topaz is worth the coin. You've pushed me closer than ever to making that jump.

 

 




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  #3485898 30-Apr-2026 19:23
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Another option is Higfssield.ai which allows access to a range of AI models including image, video and audio. I'm on the basic plan, monthly.

 

Here are some images I restored using the GPT Image 2 model.

 



 

 


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