Noiseware for lightroom: Hello everyone. Please id like to know if there is a Noiseware plugin for lightroom which can be used directly from lightroom?

Banjyte Loc: Nigeria

Hello everyone.
Please id like to know if there is a Noiseware plugin for lightroom which can be used directly from lightroom?

JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

Banjyte wrote:

Hello everyone.
Please id like to know if there is a Noiseware plugin for lightroom which can be used directly from lightroom?

There are several. The best, and also expensive, is DxO Optics Pro, Elite version which has what's called Prime Noise Removal, and it is outstanding. It can be launched from within Lightroom.

Another good one is by Topaz Labs and is called DeNoise 5. It can also be launched from within Lightroom.

Neat Image is also good, but cannot be launched from Lightroom, but can from Photoshop. And since you can launch Photoshop from Lightroom, it can get you there.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

NIK also has a denoise.
and of course the one built into lightroom is fairly good

JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

robertjerl wrote:

NIK also has a denoise.
and of course the one built into lightroom is fairly good

Actually, DeNoise is Topaz Labs. But NIK does have one called Define 2 and it is pretty good too. And it can be called from Lightroom too.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

JimH123 wrote:

Actually, DeNoise is Topaz Labs. But NIK does have one called Define 2 and it is pretty good too. And it can be called from Lightroom too.

(edit) NIK also has a "de noise" app. I wasn't naming it.

CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

JimH123 wrote:

There are several. The best, and also expensive, is DxO Optics Pro, Elite version which has what's called Prime Noise Removal, and it is outstanding. It can be launched from within Lightroom.

Another good one is by Topaz Labs and is called DeNoise 5. It can also be launched from within Lightroom.

Neat Image is also good, but cannot be launched from Lightroom, but can from Photoshop. And since you can launch Photoshop from Lightroom, it can get you there.

I have the Topaz Labs DeNoise 5 and like it alot. It does not degrade the sharpness very much like Lightroom's builtin denoise.
They all loose sharpness it's just a matter of how much.
Craig

Banjyte Loc: Nigeria

Thanks alot. Il check them out.
I shoot mostly weddings, applied Noiseware on few images lastweek and i like what i got. Evened out the skin and details +sharpness weren't lost against what hapens in portrature.
I just need a software that can deliver as much and shorten my workflow

MW

Banjyte wrote:

Hello everyone.
Please id like to know if there is a Noiseware plugin for lightroom which can be used directly from lightroom?

All of the above are good, but I think DxO Optics Pro is the best one. (Their algorithm is camera body specific.) Unfortunately for me, it does not support Fuji. But I think Nik comes in number two and Fuji presents no problems to it.

Banjyte Loc: Nigeria

Thanks MW. Il check it out.

JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

MW wrote:

All of the above are good, but I think DxO Optics Pro is the best one. (Their algorithm is camera body specific.) Unfortunately for me, it does not support Fuji. But I think Nik comes in number two and Fuji presents no problems to it.

For weddings, where you have lots and lots of pictures to process, DxO Optics Pro Elite version, and it has to be the Elite version, allows you to batch a lot of files and to do the same noise reduction to all of them. It crunches and crunches for a long time, and results in TIFF files which you can then load into Lightroom. It works only on RAW files, not JPG. You can load the files into Lightroom first, and then send them to DxO, but I think that it is not as good since Lightroom has already tweaked those files and DxO should get them first.

The other De Noise programs tend to destroy detail as they remove noise. The sophisticated algorithms of DxO do it completely differently and as long as you don't go overboard, there doesn't seem to be any loss of detail. And then you go to Lightroom and finish up.

avemal Loc: BALTIMORE

You know that LR has it available in the Detail section.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

As does Photoshop CC

avemal wrote:

You know that LR has it available in the Detail section.

steveg48

JimH123 wrote:

For weddings, where you have lots and lots of pict... (show quote)

Lightroom only tweaks the files first if you let it. DxO Pro 10 Elite is a RAW converter which includes Prime Noise reduction. If you call it from Lightroom it is essentially being used as the RAW converter instead of Lightroom. It's claim to fame is that it does an excellent RAW conversion and noise reduction (without losing sharpness). It has no local adjustments. It has two types of noise reduction,-regular and prime. The Prime noise reduction claims to be the best on the market but is very slow. The algorithm examines 1000 pixels around each pixel. The regular noise reduction is usually good enough. Prime can take several minutes to process one image. When done with the RAW conversion, you can export back to Lightroom as a TIFF. Back in Lightroom you can do any local adjustments you want, edit in Photoshop, etc.

MtnMan Loc: ID

Banjyte wrote:

Hello everyone.
Please id like to know if there is a Noiseware plugin for lightroom which can be used directly from lightroom?

Topaz denoise.

wolfman

Banjyte wrote:

Hello everyone.
Please id like to know if there is a Noiseware plugin for lightroom which can be used directly from lightroom?

DXo OpticsPro 10 Elite version. It's expensive, but the prime noise reduction is amazing. Virtually no loss of detail or sharpness.