My Topaz Image Quality Bundle review

My Topaz Labs Image Quality Bundle Conclusion…

For those of you that don’t want to read the full review or read the individual reviews here is my Conclusion…

• Topaz Image Quality Bundle is a good photography editing software bundle with 3 great plugins… Sharpen AI, DeNoise AI and Gigapixel AI. They work really well and give you great results but they are no longer great value for money sadly. The Topaz Image Quality Bundle is something every photographer could benefit from but there are other cheaper options out there now.
• Price and is it out priced in todays market? With the rapid improvements in both On1 and Luminar Neo the Image quality bundle is starting to look a little dated and poor value for money. Both of the the other platforms offer you a lot more for the money including a full editing platform in the price.

Ok, back to the review and technical specs….

So What’s in the Topaz Image Quality Bundle?

You get Sharpen AI, DeNoise AI and Gigapixel AI in the image quality bundle so basically everything you need to finish off processing your images.

Sharpen AI

Is amazing for a whole host of reasons, firstly they have several algorithms to help… remove motion blur, refocus out of Focus areas in your shot and fix shots that are simply just too soft. I have a full Sharpen AI review here if you want to have a read of all of it’s features.

DeNoise AI

DeNoise AI is great at removing noise in your images and is a serious help for astro photographer and wildlife photography to name just two genres this software is popular is in. Again I have a full DeNoise AI review here if you want to find out more about it. Or you can also check out the new ON1 NoNoise AI 2023 review

Gigapixel AI

Gigapixel AI is one of those bits of software that I never ever thought I would use and it was only when I tested it for Topaz Labs that I saw just how awesome it is… If you are like me and you have some old images that are pretty old resolution or even some shots where you had to crop in a lot on the shot then Gigapixel AI is gonna really help transform those low res files into something beautiful for you and boy does it do a good job. I have a video and a Gigapixel AI review here if you want to learn more. Or alternatively you can checkout my ON1 Resize AI 2023 Review here.

How to use the Image quality bundle.

This is one of the most common questions people ask me and the way I use the image quality bundle is fairly straight forward.

For example I had a photograph of an old family photograph given to me for restoration recently, now as you can imagine this is the stuff of nightmares as the old photograph was already battered and had a few wrinkles in it, the photograph was also low res as it had to be cropped in a good bit. So there I was looking at what was about a 4mp file of a really battered image. The order in which I use way I always use this software bundle is always the same…. DeNoise AI first, then Sharpen AI and finally Gigapixel AI.

DeNoise AI will help to clean up the image and get rid of any noise (if you are sending your image to DeNoise AI try not to sharpen it or edit it first, any sharpening could seriously effect how well it works.). Now we have a clean image we can start to sharpen it or fix any “motion blur” or “out of focus” flaws in it.

We now have a clean sharp image which we can resize, then we can edit out any flaws in it like creases or scratches. The final result is a completely transformed photograph and a very happy client.

As I mentioned above you usually don’t need all three on the one photograph but if you do this is the order in which I use them and I have found it works best like this. In each of these bits of software there are similar settings and you might well think that sharpening in DeNoise AI works as well as Sharpen AI but they are in fact very different and each bit is ideally should only be used for the purpose it was meant for.