New-ish customer, and confused over the menagerie/overlap of products

@wsalopek wrote:

Hi folks...

I'm an experienced photographer...long time and daily user of Adobe CC.

I'm trying to figure out what to buy or not buy from Topaz, and I have to tell you, the menagerie of products is rather overwhelming as many of them seem to overlap and/or do the same thing (ish).

For starters, these 3 seem to overlap quite a bit:

Sharpen AI
Gigapixel AI
AI Clear

But then there are several others...that talk about "detail", "focus", etc etc...which again, all seem to be related to each other as well as the 3 products above.

And then there's the issue that some are "plugins", some are "stand-alone" some are "adjustments", as well as "effects" and "filters".

I can figure out what plugins and stand-alones are, but the other 3 are confusing.

And then there's the question of workflow which is REALLY confusing...as in do I do this first, then that second? Or the other way around? Or should I add a 3rd?

Of course I know some of this is up to the creative ideas of the photographer, but on the other hand, with many (all?) of your products, the user has no idea what is actually going on behind the scene, which could help a great deal in deciding which effect/filter/plugin/adjustment/etc to apply and in what order.

For me, presently, and while many of your products look quite interesting, I am interested in sharpening and detail (after cropping an image sometimes heavily, as with bird photos, surfer photos...stuff like that), which SEEMS to point to the first 3 products I mentioned...Gigapixel AI, Sharpen AI and Clear AI.

So can someone point me in the right direction? I'd buy all 3 I guess if funds were unlimited, but they are not.

Questions are which one(s) to buy, and then in what order to use them.

Thanks...

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