Topaz Photo Ai

I use it for denoise and sharpening sometimes. It works okay.

The only reason I use it every now and then is because it takes greyscale and 16 bit. Most plugins only take sRGB and 8 bit

Especially that it takes 16 bit is a big advantage for me since I usually edit in 16 bit

I bought it about a week ago and the results are amazing. I've never used Luminar, so I can't comment on that.

I have used both and IMO nothing beats Topaz Labs. I am using Photoshop's neural filters a bit too. I can see some real positives with that too.

I use A1 clear and wonder what is the difference between it and Denoise,..??

I e been using Topaz Studio 2 which has a pretty good noise filter built in - along with myriad other filters and tells.

It is likely not nearly as good as their dedicated AI denoise/sharpen tool but I’m quite happy with what I’ve got.

I bought it today... It's on sale for $159 and then I searched until I found a 15% off coupon here: https://couponfollow.com/site/topazlabs.com#C5248323

I used the first coupon listed and it worked, so the total was $135.15.

Friday is the last day of the sale, they say.

I like the program a lot.

Pretty much everything I post here now gets Topaz Denoise AI or Topaz Sharpen. If I had to pick just one then hands down it would be Denoise AI , which does a nice job of sharpening too. When I have something more blurry I will use Sharpen AI to make it usable. But it can introduce some weird artifacts, so careful there. Sometimes I use both or in combination with selective denoise/sharpening in Lightroom.

Sometimes you have something amazing that is just a it too small, but can't be discarded. And there are times when you have to have something printed really huge, because a cleint wants it bigger. That where Topaz Gigapixel AI comes into play. You just have to experiment with it and see how well it enlarges. It's a good tool to have, but not for everyday uploads here.
I have Studio 2 also. It's not very useful for the work I do. I have used it to jazz up some of my food photos.

I had Luminar on my old computer. I didn't bother to install on my new one.

Bradford, I'm the same way. Pretty much every photo I process has had some treatment with either Denoise AI or Sharpen AI, or a combination of both. They can both work wonders, though I find that I have to play with the settings to get something that works, especially on images that have lots of clouds or water. So far, the main use I've had for Gigapixel AI is enlarging images for sky replacements - it does a good job with things that don't include a lot of detail.

This thread reminded me that I was going to buy Photo AI, so I logged into Topaz's website as I was typing this, and found out that it's already included in the bundle I have. That was a nice surprise.