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  1. Zackiedawg

    Topaz Gigapixel AI for enlarging heavy crops, getting better detail on birds

    I've shot with a variety of Sony gear over the years - in film days, I was Pentax and Canon, but I became familiar with Sony digital in 1997 and kind of grew into them, so once they started doing DSLRs and other interchangeable lens cameras, I ended up staying with them - first with DSLRs, then...
  2. Zackiedawg

    Topaz Gigapixel AI for enlarging heavy crops, getting better detail on birds

    The one part of it I can agree with at least with something like Gigapixel AI is if the original image is so tiny or grainy that an ID is not possible...say for example, a small non-breeding female warbler that could be any of 8 species. When you go really big on the uprez, the program is...
  3. Zackiedawg

    Topaz Gigapixel AI for enlarging heavy crops, getting better detail on birds

    In experimenting, I found that larger resizes, then downsizing back, actually cleaned up the noise better and seemed to do a little better overall with the sharpness/detail than the smaller resizes. It would depend on how much of a crop it was I guess - I've only been playing around with it for...
  4. Zackiedawg

    Topaz Gigapixel AI for enlarging heavy crops, getting better detail on birds

    I have been using Topaz's Denoise and Sharpen for a while, and both are good tools for cleaning up shots especially for birders, when we have to go to very high ISOs or deal with a little motion blur. I recently picked up Gigapixel AI to see if it could do what I hoped, which is take shots that...
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