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Topaz Studio is their flagship product and presents the user with a myriad of editing tools and effects. If you are a photographer or graphic designer, you can make use of Topaz Studio, AI Gigapixel, and a range of plugins. They pride themselves on the quality of their programs. Topaz Studio provides an excellent range of photo labs. An Introduction to Topaz Studio – What Can You Expect? Commissions do not affect our evaluations. Not perfect by any means, but neither is ~$100-$300 every ~2 years or so for perpetual licenses - YMMV but I'm not one to use the same tool for years on end without upgrading, if I was then a one time purchase every blue moon would make more sense.When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a commission at no cost to you.

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Aside from their photography package pricing, they are over priced, at ~$20/app/month, basically pushing most to the full suite for ~$50/month or whatever they charge today. Would be nice to retain full functionality at whatever moment one stops paying (just stop getting upgrades), but sadly adobe doesn't do that. In either case, the point I was trying to make is, a subscription is better than one time purchases, if the pricing is right. Though most functionality will disappear from LR if one stops paying, I do believe some basic functions still work. I said for them - as in Topaz, not adobe - to produce the best product possible *that they are able to*. (unknown didn't call adobe's products, or anyone else's, 'the best possible'.

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Users will soon be able to view how much time remains on their upgrade licenses within their customer accounts. 'I’m asking you to lock arms with us and walk through this phase of our development by accepting this change,' he states. Yang acknowledges this in his post, stating that it was a hard decision to make. Some customers are understandably upset about Topaz's decision to start charging for upgrades. 'This also incentivizes us to make sure that the improvements we do implement are useful enough for you to upgrade.' 'Wait until actually includes something you want to pay for,' Yang says.

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Topaz Labs stresses that customers retain access to the products they purchased even if they choose not to purchase software upgrades. The company says that Mask, Sharpen, DeNoise and Gigapixel will require upgrade licenses this year. For customers who own multiple Topaz Labs products, the upgrades can be collectively purchased for $99.99.

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In 2020, the company will transition to paid upgrades, which will involve paying $49.99 for a year of upgrades following an initial first year of free major and minor upgrades. Topaz Labs says more than $8 million worth of free upgrades were claimed for major new products last year. We were not thoughtful enough about aligning our pricing structure with continuous improvement of our products. Make no mistake about it: this situation was 100% our fault.

Although it started out with good intentions, our free upgrade policy ultimately prevented us from delivering the best possible products to you. We ended up with several different products that did similar things, which caused confusion about which tool to use.

By hinging its revenue on new products rather than product upgrades, Yang says, 'we found that we weren't focusing as much as we wanted on improving existing products.' Yang explains that offering free major upgrades for its products was a way 'of acting differently than faceless corporations,' but that it ultimately had an unwanted effect. Gigapixel AI, DeNoise AI, Sharpen AI and Mask AI are all affected by the change. The announcement was made by company CEO Eric Yang in a statement on Thursday. Topaz Labs, the software company known for offering free software upgrades, has announced a major change to its business model: customers will have to pay to upgrade several of the company's products starting in August 2020.

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