I had a few occasions when I worked on very precise masking for a while in Topaz and then it crashed. ![]() There is no doubt you would agree it’s very unpleasant experience to lose your work no matter how much time you spent on it. Now I just save my masks in Topaz as often as I can. I don’t want to loose my work again, but it’s unnecessary thing to keep in mind when a computer can easily take care of it.įirst of all you need an option in the setting to make it possible to auto save current mask every X minutes. Leave it to user to decide how often or make a few options like every 5/10/15/30 minutes. It’s a continuation to #2, but it deserves its separate thread. Instead of Untitled file name use name of the file or layer in Photoshop plus timestamp. You can make it highly customizable with a tags like system. Every time I need to think of original name or remember the name of the file I’m working on I’m wasting the time and getting out of the flow. It could be as simple as - and you get a beautiful name like IMG08432-Hair-Mask-10-40.tiff. I would like to keep my trimap masks in the same folder as my working file in most cases. At the very least make it possible to set in setting the default location for trimap files. There are many more things i just dont like about A1 but I would be writing alot so i will try to keep this post short.It’s not very comfortable to work near the edge of an image. I expected that the A1 version would be better than remask but its a downgrade IMHO. The compute mask/recompute is faster in A1 than Remask however if the algorithim doesnt doesnt do a good job on selecting the mask, then the faster computer/recompute time is a moot point. The only thing I noticed an improvement on is speed. The brush in remask is just a colored ring which is more usable to me. The brush is totally colored green/red/blue and you can’t see very well the image thru the color. Remask appears to select the mask better overall on the first ilteration and as a result I have to spend more time cleaning up in A1. First - the tricolor method of selecting in Mask A1 is not as good as Remask. I use this plugin for portraiture work and I have switched back to Remask 5. I have been using A1 for about 3 months now. They are about as silly to do this as Vizzini declaring that our insistence that Mask Ai is certainly the same product as ReMask to be “inconceivable” to which Inigo suggests “you keep using that word I do not think it means what you think it means”. Yet it’s supposedly a completely different product. The free upgrade from InFocus to Sharpen Ai was way more of an upgrade than Remask 5 to Mask Ai. As for Mask Ai it is not different in capabilities than any rewrite of an existing product and typically less sophisticated. I found I was actually using Studio fairly often until Studio 2 and now I rarely ever use it even though every few weeks I open it and consider using it practically every case I just close it and use the classic plugins directly. It seems odd to me that with both Remask and Studio, the new and improved products that have to be purchased, albeit with upgrade pricing for previous owners and are no longer part of the upgrades for life product line, the new versions are both retrogrades in terms of capabilities and workflow finesse. I just hope Mask Ai doesn’t “fall by the wayside” as time marches forward. Heck, Mask Ai cannot even be used in Studio 2, as of today. ![]() Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been a Topaz user for many, many users and really appreciate these free updates, but not at the expense of further development and refinement of existing products. Personally, I’ve never understood their “free upgrades for life” strategy because giving stuff away doesn’t make you money. ![]() What concerns me at this point is that in recent years Topaz’s development methodology seems to be: 1) release a product before it’s really ready, 2) release a flurry of initial updates while initial sales are running hot, then 3) forget about this product because we need to move on to the new thing that’s going to make us money. I’m still “on the fence” about asking for a refund. When little bits-n-pieces remain, I’m finding the current automated brushes generally do too much. I’d like to have a simple cut/keep brush that would enable me to manually manipulate the mask, as necessary, to perfect it. What Mask Ai desperately needs is some cleanup tools. ![]() In my limited testing of Mask Ai I have, so far, found the initial computed mask to be better (more complete?) than Remask 5 at least, for the images I’ve tossed at it.
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