
Without Topaz Adjust AI and DeNoise AI
Once upon a time, about eight and half years ago, I didn’t shoot in RAW; I only saved my shots in jpg format. Alas, those photos are far more difficult to process in terms of getting them to look like what the scene originally looked like. The above, 11-photo photomerge is one such example. In Photoshop I wasn’t able to get the final panorama to look like the brilliance of the sunset from that one evening in New York back in 2012. Because I shot in jpg, the details were muddy and not recoverable (in Photoshop at least).
I downloaded Topaz Labs’ Adjust AI to see if it could do better. Adjust AI comes with a bunch of filters, none of which I liked. However, the adjustments for highlights, colors, shadows, etc. are far more powerful and customizable in manual mode than what you see in Photoshop, and I was able to bring the scene back to something more closely resembling what I saw with my naked eye that evening. The results are below.

With Topaz Adjust AI and DeNoise AI
Topaz Labs’ Adjust AI is available for under $50 until 12/31/20. Use the code holiday2020 at checkout.
Posted on December 29th, 2020 under Other. Tags: brooklyn bridge, landscape, new york, nikon d7000, panorama, photomerge, RAW vs Jpg jpeg, sunset, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon, topaz denoise. Comments Off on Topaz Adjust AI