That said, it’s an up-front fee that includes a year of unlimited upgrades, with no subscription necessary.īy comparison, Adobe’s Creative Cloud Photography bundle – which includes Lightroom and Photoshop – starts at $9.99 / £9.98 / AU$14.29 per month, for a year.

If your Mac has an Intel chip, you’ll need 16GB of RAM to go with it for Apple M1 or M2 processors, 8GB of RAM is sufficient.Įven with four highly effective image correction tools in its arsenal, many will find $159 a steep ask for a program that lacks even basic exposure adjustment options. For Apple users, the benchmark is MacOS 11 or later. According to the minimum hardware requirements published by Topaz, your machine will also require 12GB of RAM. If you’re installing it on a PC, you’ll need to be running Windows 10 or 11. There are no subscription options here: the standard price is a one-off $199, although it’s currently discounted to $159.

It’s available to buy and download now for Windows and Mac. Topaz Photo AI was released in September 2022. Available as a download for Mac and Windows.$199 standard price, currently discounted to $159.Provided you’re happy to pay a premium for its AI assistance – and accept that you’ll need to use it together with another image-editing program for basic corrections – it can work wonders to address flaws that would otherwise ruin a composition, making it a fantastic tool in any photographer’s editing arsenal. That being said, Topaz Photo AI is still a highly effective, largely intuitive solution for removing noise, enhancing resolution and bringing back detail, especially in low-quality images.

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