Topaz Labs Sharpen AI is available as a free trial so you can try it before you buy.Beautiful video enlargements using machine learning. For more advanced photographers who know Photoshop inside out, the $79.99 / £58 cost of the software may not be worthwhile. Results are, however, comparable to those achievable manually in Photoshop using the Unsharp Mask and the Shake Reduction filters, so the software may be more appealing to beginners and photographers who require a fast yet good quality sharpening fix during editing.

Sharpen AI undoubtedly makes sharpening images and resolving blur such as camera shake incredibly quick and easy thanks to easy-to-use controls and artificial intelligence. With these types of blur, there’s always a finite amount of correction that can be applied and you can often see when motion blur has been corrected this is most obvious on-screen, while print is much more forgiving if the sharpening effect isn’t too strong. When resolving motion blur and camera shake, the software produces results that are once again comparable to those possible Photoshop, but the whole process is much quicker and easier. One point worth making here though is that Sharpen AI doesn’t create the high contrast edges and the halos that images can easily suffer from along subject edges using Unsharp Mask. Sharpen AI makes this incredibly easy, and where you might spend a few minutes experimenting with Unsharp Mask settings in Photoshop, Sharpen AI allows you to achieve similar results in just a few moments. One of the problems with any kind of image sharpening is that there’s a fine line between perfectly sharpened and oversharpened, so you have to take care to maintain a natural-looking result.

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