Shooter41 Loc: Wichita, KS

Please pardon the old country saying. but it does apply in this instance. I am the blind hog. I am 80-years-old; hard of hearing and definitely NOT tech savvy. But I stumbled onto the best de-noise software I have ever tried. It is called SilkyPix and comes from Japan. The good news is it works WONDERFLLY at removing noise! The bad news is only Japanese narrators do reviews on it and they speak so fast and with such a Japanese accent that I cannot understand a word they are saying. Their videos click on sliders so fast I cannot keep up with them even with the sound turned off.
Is there anyone who either speaks Japanese or is so tech savvy that they can play with the program themselves to determine the exact steps one has to go through to: (1) loading an image into the soft ware (2) play with the sliders to denoise the image as wonderfully as the one I attached? (I must have played with it for an hour and when I got done, I had no idea how I got there.) If someone were to do a video reviewing SilkyPix software in English, I'm sure it would get a zillion hits. I want to buy and use the software, but it is no good to me if there are no English narrators reviewing the software that I can follow and understand to learn how to use the software to de-noise. Thank you for your time and consideration.

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ELNikkor

Great shot of the mourning dove! If you want an easier way to understand SilkyPix, there are many reviews and tutorials of it on Youtube.

juan_uy Loc: Uruguay

Hi I never used it and I don't speak (nor understand) Japanese.

I went through their website and here is the online manual in English (webpage format sadly):
https://www.isl.co.jp/SILKYPIX/english/support/manual/dsp10/man0001.html

I searched a little bit and found this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0skubLplBI
Not sure if it addresses your needs (I didn't watch it), but I think his English is quite understandable.

If you want to check a video without sound just to follow the steps, in Youtube you can change the playback speed so you could make it play slower. This may help with the videos you mentioned were too fast.

Hope to at least help a little bit :)

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

My Panasonic FZ18 came with SilkyPix raw developer software. You should be able to find written support simply by searching for SilkyPix with your browser. If you are watching Youtube videos with fast talkers, and worse, fast talkers with an accent, ( I know what you mean, I'm old and hard of hearing myself) you can slow down (or speed up) any Youtube video by clicking on the little gear icon in the bottom right of your screen, and clicking on "Play back speed" in the pop up window.

Shooter41 Loc: Wichita, KS

Dear BigDaddy...
I took your advice and slowed down the YouTube video which helped. But my next problem is the Japanese narrator slowly says, "Click on "Navigator" to bring an image into the software. (I have messed with the software and have a screen that has no "Navigator" and I don't know how to go back to the original screen that does have navigator. Any suggestions?

R.G. Loc: Scotland

If you have the software properly installed you should be able to right-click on an image file and select Open with...>SilkyPix (Windows).

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

Sorry shooter, I no longer have or use Silkypix. I use Affinity Photo for about all my editing needs, including raw developing.
Most editing software has a top menu that has "File" on it. Clicking on that should give you the options you are looking for.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

A little cutie ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

tcthome Loc: NJ

AK Loc: Adelaide Hills, South Australia

TreasureHuntersDigital does a number of Silkypix tutorials in English, which helped me out.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

SilkyPix is the Panasonic processing software. I only use it to set the white balance for my full spectrum converted Lumix G2.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Nice one!

jimmol

I have been using Panasonic cameras for quite some time, and as I recall, they have all come bundled with SilkyPix. I've never used this editor, but you might find information about it on the Panasonic web site. Other editors you might try include Franzis Denoise and ACDSee Ultimate. The lastest ACDSee (released just a week ago) does a good job and is a lot faster than the old version.

The ultimate, however, is Topaz Sharpen AI. The good news is that it sharpens amazingly well without leaving a halo or amplifying noise. It actually makes noise disappear. The bad news is that it is 50 times bigger and 50 times slower than Franzis Sharpen 2, at least on my computer.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

That image was shot at ISO 160... Why in the world do you think it needs noise reduction? There should be no digital noise to speak of at that level. I assume what you posted here has been post-processed with that NR software. I'd really like to see the original image, without any NR applied to it, for comparison. I suspect that all the NR is doing is removing fine detail from the image.