Topaz Labs

Topaz Labs builds the enhancement tools that photographers and post-production teams reach for when footage or a photo is not quite good enough and reshooting is not an option.

The products

• Photo AI combines upscaling, denoising, sharpening, and face recovery into one pass, choosing settings per image
• Video AI upscales to 4K and beyond, removes noise and compression artefacts, stabilises shaky footage, and interpolates frames for slow motion or frame-rate conversion
• Gigapixel handles extreme upscaling, reconstructing plausible detail rather than smoothing pixels

What sets them apart

These are trained enhancement models rather than filters, so results hold up under scrutiny at full resolution — the standard by which professionals judge them. Everything runs locally on your own GPU, which means no upload limits, no per-image cost, and no question about where your client's footage went.

Practical notes

Batch processing handles whole shoots, and the applications integrate with Lightroom, Photoshop, and common NLEs. Licences are perpetual with a year of updates rather than a subscription. Rescuing archival footage, salvaging low-light shots, and preparing images for large-format print are the classic use cases.