Adobe officially announced a definitive agreement to acquire Topaz Labs

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The headline says it all. I don’t have any further comments. We can all speculate about the potential impact this might have on the general post processing software market and to DxO in particular.

Mark

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Topaz’s best days were at least a year or 3 ago. Their software is not as widely well regarded these days - denoise and sharpening, upscaling - all done better by other software now, and their AI photo repair is laughable. Not sure how this would really benefit Adobe users.

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I absolutely agree, especially with regard to the AI Photo repair. I had the opportunity to test it for around a month. The results with it were occasionally quite good but far too often they were, as you indicated, laughable and completely unusable..

Mark

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I wonder if it’s less about offering great new tech to Adobe/Lightroom users, and more about gobbling up competition wherever possible.

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I think this is an actual tech acquisition for once instead of the usual buy and bury. Topaz labs has gotten about as big as it was going to get. I think Adobe is feeling a little squeeze as canva comes for them on the photo and graphics end, and (gut feeling) the pro market is probably moving over to non-adobe products as a whole

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Actually, I am not concerned about the acquisition. I fully agree with Phil (FlipM). Some years ago, Topaz might have made sense.
I am still subscribed to Topaz Studio but do not use it. DxO PureRaw, for instance, delivers much better results. The Topaz Photo output looks much to artificially to me. The only useful tool left is the Topaz Gigapixel application. In my eyes.

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I think it will be interesting to see it shake out. Adobe seems more interested in the AI slot machine credit pulls lately. And they’ve already integrated Gigapixel and Bloom and other stuff into PS. IMHO, Adobe is becoming like Electronic Arts. They are more about monetizing the platform than innovation.

I’m not too worried about DxO, they are making better and better tools and staying on mission. so, unless they do some colossal f-ery. I’ll keep upgrading.