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I have to totally agree with your first point! I've had far too many upgrades that either wouldn't install or wouldn't run after installation!! I dislike being a Beta tester for a company unless being paid to do so.Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. If Topaz makes any significant improvement in image quality, not performance or new UI, I'll reconsider.
So for me, I'll use what I have for the next year. Topaz does not give me nearly the same value as what I receive from Adobe, but they want just as much. I have more than one product, so my new annual license fees will be as much as my annual subscription to Adobe. But Topaz fees, for the value you receive, are exorbitant. I'm also not against license/maintenance fees. I like the ease of denoising with Topaz, but I can get similar results with technique, PS or denoise 6, just not as easily. Their programmers leave a lot to be desired. I came to expect this to take a week of emails back and forth to get many updates installed correctly.
My biggest problems with them had been their very buggy update process. Almost all of the revisions have been associated with fixing bugs or changing UI feel, but no real improvement in image quality. My observations are there is not much improvement in the denoising results. My license stopped at v2.2.12 and I don't plan on buying any updates for at least a year. I was an early adopter of topaz denoise, starting with denoise 6 and transitioning to AI.
Has/is anyone going to upgrade to the new version for $59.00? If so why/why not? It includes AI Clear which often does a better job of both denoising and sharpening than the expensive standalone they sell. It is not under the draconic pricing model probably because they arent doing on any work on it. Ive tried all the versions of topaz and found their results to be sketchy at best with one noticeable exception, Topaz Studio 2. It is a sign of financial issues and a red flag.Ĥ. No problem, other than the set fee is way too high based on the norm for software. Perpetual because you own whatever product for life and SaaS because have a contractual process that charges you a set fee yearly. They replaced that with the new policy which is a hybrid of perpetual and SaaS-based pricing. It is easy for a company to rebadge a product and claim it is new and not covered by the lifetime upgrade policy. If you purchased up to about a year ago you are grandfathered into free upgrades for life for THE products you own. That is not sustainable unless you continue to increase your customer base at a rate higher than the revenue you would get from charging upgrades. Used to be you bought a product and got free versions for life. In fact, often the iMac is faster on same image.ģ. I have no better results on a new mbp i7, max ram, and an SSD drive. I use a 2011 iMac and have zero performance issues with lots of other apps doing pm and ml such as PhotoShop, LightRoom, On1, even Luminar 4.
Their code is poorly written which causes the performance issues especially with the pattern matching and machine learning which is what they call AI, which it isn’t. On the FB pages there a tons of people complaining the new versions are so bad they can’t use them (freezing, doing nothing, and crashing are the biggest complaints) with pc users having the biggest issuesĢ. Topaz is terrible for putting out versions that are basically betas.