Photo AI is a kind of portmanteau software product which combines Topaz Lab’s denoising, sharpening, resizing and portrait enhancement tools into a single semi-automated process. Topaz AI software is highly regarded by many photographers, though it faces strong competition from mainstream rivals.
At the moment, Topaz’s Cloud processing is optional. You can still use your own computer for processing. But will there come a point where Topaz’s AI processing becomes so ‘powerful’ that it can only be done in the cloud? Convenient, huh?
Verdict: 3.3 stars $199 is a lot of money to pay for a simplified AI photo fixer and there’s not even a trial version, just an ‘unconditional’ money back guarantee. When it works, Photo AI is good, even spectacular, but the image and its problems have to fall within its window of fixability. Photo AI is also slow, over-aggressive with noise reduction and can only fix the right sort of blur.