The breakthrough came with the and upscaling tools. While there were no faces in this canyon, the upscaling allowed him to see the fine spray of water that he thought was lost forever. He experimented with the new Crop tool —though it was a bit finicky in this version, occasionally locking him into a 5:7 ratio when he wanted "Custom," he eventually managed to frame the glow perfectly.
He toggled the module. Previously, the image looked like a smear of orange paint, but with v1.1.8’s refined algorithms, the textures of the rock face began to emerge from the blur. He then turned to the Remove Noise slider. Version 1.1.8 had introduced more granular control, and he carefully dialed back the "Raw Remove Noise" to "Normal" to avoid the "garbage" artifacts some users had reported with the default settings on certain RAW files. Topaz Photo AI 1.1.8
Once, in the cluttered workspace of a landscape photographer named Elias, there was a photograph that felt like a heartbreak. It was a shot of the elusive "Firefall" in Yosemite—a rare moment where the setting sun hits Horsetail Fall just right, making it glow like molten lava. But the shot was a mess: blurred by a shaky tripod and drowned in digital noise from a high ISO. The breakthrough came with the and upscaling tools
1.8 or how it compares to the of Topaz Photo AI? Topaz Photo AI Quick Start Video He toggled the module
As he dragged the RAW file into the interface, the feature began its silent work. Elias watched the "Subject Detected" indicator glow green. In this version, the AI had become more adept at distinguishing between the jagged granite of El Capitan and the soft, glowing mist of the waterfall.
Elias had nearly given up on it until he opened . This specific update, released in early 2023, felt like a turning point in his digital darkroom.