jhapeman wrote: gdanmitchell wrote: mcbroomf wrote:
Version 12.3 released. Introduces AI Denoise. Also curves in Masking and a few other things. Denoise also added to PS ACR (15.3)
Sadly looks like it's unusable on my i7 7xxx Win 10 desktop machine. The preview window pops up and says 5 mins but over 10 now and just the whirly dots. Will test out on my M1 MBP when I get a chance. Topaz AI only takes about a minute to render a preview.
I'm late to the show here and I have not read all 12 pages in the thread, but...
... at the insistence of a couple of photographer friends, I tried out the AI Denoise, even though I was skeptical, thinking that I can do as well manually.
A bit to my surprise, it works really well. It is especially useful on low light, high ISO photographs I have of migratory birds. It does a fine job of drastically reducing noise while not losing detail.
I'm on Mac. I'm a Photoshop user, so I use the feature in ACR.
In my opinion they came out of the gate with a winner. I've been using and testing all the major players over the last 14 months or so--DxO, ON1, Topaz and now Lightroom. Overall I felt Topaz was the best...WAS. I haven't opened or touched any other DeNoise app since this Lightroom release came out. It's killer good.
I think that the real test — and so far it has passed with flying colors — is how much it can improve margins files. Good files are already good enough that a bit of NR isn't a big deal, but files from shooting in very marginal conditions often end up on the margin between being usable and not being usable. The new feature seems to push a good number of them into teh usable domain.
May 10, 2023 at 11:08 AM
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