Sometime within the next 6-24 months we'll be moving to a location without high speed internet access, not at any price. Hence I'm transitioning to Topaz Photo AI for all editing while keeping Lightroom for management of my library. I can accept the slower speed processing off line.
Is Anthony going to update the Mastering Topaz Labs Photo AI course or do I need to look elsewhere?
That course was retired and replaced with the course Photo AI Mastery. If you owned my old course, I sent multiple emails to all owners of Mastering Topaz Labs Photo AI telling them the old course was being retired (although they could still access it forever) and offering them the new course at 50% off.
As an aside, Photo AI isn’t a full editor like Lightroom so it’s not really a Lightroom replacement.
Hi Denis, I just emailed you directly.
Topaz Photo AI has been retired as a standalone product and will no longer be supported or updated by Topaz Labs. Its replacement is a new product suite called Topaz Studio. Within this suite, there is a component called "Topaz Photo". Products from Anthony Morganti for Topaz Photo AI will no longer be relevant in relation to Topaz's current supported product, Topaz Studio. Topaz Photo in Topaz Studio builds on Photo AI, but it has several new or enhanced features that require a completely new course from Anthony Morganti.
Just hand your wallet over to these software companies. :)
Burhaneddin,
Your reply is mostly inaccurate and finally you complain that the software companies don't give you free software.
The suite is an integration of existing products much as Adobe does with their cloud subscriptions. I have the Adobe basic subscription which includes Lightroom, Photoshop and Camera Raw; all of which work the same in a package as they did as separate products. All of which get continuous enhances that are funded by the subscription fee.
Topaz Studio is a similar packaging though, over time, we can expect to see more integration between the products. Enhancing features does NOT require a completely new course from Anthony. We can still learn the existing features from his current course and check the specific enhancements at the Topaz learning site, which is free.
Subscriptions make sense to those of us who want to see continuous improvement in the products. Those improvements need to be funded. If you are not willing to support these enhancements then use one of the free photo editing tools such as Dark Table though they need contributions to continue funding their tools.
-Bill