gwilliams6

gwilliams6

gwilliams6

Thanks so much, Cheers

gwilliams6

Thanks . The raw file is filed away. I dont post my raw files for anyone on social media to take, sorry, not personal, just one of my business rules. This was processed from a tiff (Topaz creates a tiff for you to work on) from the original raw file.

You just have trust me that in LR alone I could reduce some noise but would have also lost details. In Topaz Denoise AI, I got rid of the noise and still retained detail. Get the free trial version and play with it and see the differences on one of your raw files.

Cheers and best to you.

Joexx

Great photo. Could you please attach the original raw photo. I would like to compare the results using LR%PS. Thanks

Joexx

thanks for the reply. I completely understand not wanting to sent the RAW photo. Sorry for the double post. my login timed out & I didn't know the first message was sent.
Two years ago, I did download a copy of the Topaz suite & tried it out. It did seem to work quite well, but did not get me anything that I could not do with LR & PS. My "take-away" was the Topaz had a pretty good product suite and it might be easier or faster to use, but in the end, you could get the same or better results with LR & PS, so why spend the money? I was really looking for an excuse to buy Topaz, but didn't find one. Perhaps it has improved and now can do things you cannot accomplish in PS, but I am looking for examples. As to your comment that you could reduce noise, but you lost detail, PS has some really excellent capabilities to sharpen photos. Using those along with some masking, I have am able to get some really good results. There are many tutorials online on different methods. some require 20-30 steps. What I have done is make a script with all the steps and just let it run. In that way it is very easy for me to try our several different methods on a photo & not really need to think about it. BTW, LR does some thing really well, but the sharpening capabilities are rather poor. Kind of like trying to do a detailed sketch with a crayon rather than a fine point pen

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Yes. Depending on image content, image size and viewing distances it can be a modest improvement or massive one.

Joexx

Yes, but if you gave the same photo to someone who was reasonably competent in PS And LR, could they do as good or better job? Discounting the time spent.

gwilliams6

Latest Topaz Denoise AI is much improved from two years ago. It works much better than noise reduction in LR, not even comparable. Get a new free trial and see for yourself. Also DXO Raw is excellent for noise reduction also, better than LR also.

Cheers

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

👍👍 Exactly.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

No

gwilliams6

No is correct answer. I have been using PS and LR since they first came out ,and their noise reduction while improved over the years is not as effective as Topaz Denoise AI and DXO Raw . And PS and LR noise reduction tends to lose detail, while I can get superior noise reduction and still retain details with Topaz Denoise AI or DXO Raw.

If you wont believe folks here, the best thing is to get the free trial and check it out yourself.

Cheers and best to you.

Joexx

Thanks

Joexx

Thanks

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

I am back because last night I received and installed the latest update to Topaz Denoise AI.
So here is a picture OOC-cropped only, then processed including the last version of Denoise AI and now that image run through the latest update.
You can see differences at each stage.
#1 OOC cropped only
#2 Processed, colors, contrast etc. tweaked, Denoise AI and enlarged a bit
#3 #2 run through the newest version of Denoise AI with last night's update
In both #2 & #3 Denoise AI was in the "Clear" mode.
#4 enlarged with Gigapixel AI (with yesterday's updates) at 2x

I have Denoise AI, Sharpen AI and Gigapixel AI and consider them well worth the money.

I will also post this as thread of its own.

OOC 1st crop

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Edited & adjust crop+remove hanger end at LL

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Run through latest version of Denoise AI

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Run through latest version of Gigapixel AI (but posted at same image size)

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