He shares his 30 years of experience as a working pro with other photographers and enthusiasts by way of his workshops, 1 on 1 training, webinars, articles, blog and speaking engagements. His technical articles have been translated for use in more than 30 countries yet he is best known for his artistic images of nature’s fleeting moments and unexpected views of everyday places around the globe. He is one of the pioneers of digital photography having conducted digital photography seminars for Apple and other corporations starting in the early 90s. Joel Wolfson is an internationally published photographer who loves teaching as much as shooting. Fast forward to now and we have a super useful tool with Sharpen AI. At that time no one envisioned using artificial intelligence to do the job. Up to that point it was simply deemed impossible to fix a blurry image. It wasn’t perfect but it still impressed the heck out of me at the time. Topaz pioneered fixing out of focus images about nine years ago with their InFocus product. It may take some extra time but it may also pay off. If the suggested settings don’t work and the image is important- play around with the choices. But it pays to try the different models and slider settings regardless of what the auto-select chooses for you. While this software is seemingly magical on many images there are also some that it just can’t seem to fix. My only other niggle is that I’d like to see the option/alt key be available to switch between Add and Sub (subtract) while masking. I’m on a Mac so can’t say this will happen on other machines. Mainly that the mask preview isn’t always accurate after several changes. I have found the masking is sometimes quirky when I’m switching around settings for Radius/Threshold/Opacity. Well, nothing is perfect but I have to say that my complaints are minor and there are certainly no deal breakers. I didn’t get any official word on this from Topaz but after using it on several images I’ve used before, it seems noticeably faster.
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