![]() A few weeks ago I have started to use Topaz Sharpen / Denoise. I have tested LR AI on an older photo which is both very soft and quite noisy (taken with E-M1 Mark II at ISO 1250 with 100-400). Therefore, my preference for this particular photo is the results fron LrC’s new AI denoise function.įor other pictures, the results may be different. LrC AI on the other hand still looks somewhat grainy, but retains fine details and skin tones to a much better degree, in my opinion. Standard ails to do a proper job on this photo, and Strong overdoes even when the handles are pulle all the way to the left. I tried both settings, Standard and Strong. As usual, Photo AI has a tendency of making skin tones look plasticcy and removes fine details visible on the shirt and the neck strap. ![]() Photo AI seemingly does a better job than LrC AI, however I am not convinced. The attached screenshot contains from left to right jpg exports of the new AI denoise function of LrC, then Photo AI version 1.3.0.0 and finally the original photo without adjustments. Over the years I have used this for testing noise reduction in LrC as well as in Topaz Denoise and later Photo AI. This is my personal opinion based on testing on my favorite object, a photo taken in bright sunlight with the Pen-F camera set to ISO 25600 by mistake. I don’t use PureRAW often so I could live with the (lack of) speed of Adobe’s attempt… except despite its glacial performance it doesn’t do as good a job (much better than nothing though) and the file size is a bit bigger too, although that may be down to it having much more residual noise than the PureRAW version.īottom line: the Adobe denoise is free (if you already use Lightroom Classic) and I’d certainly use it if that was all I had available, but I don’t think it’s going to worry DxO any time soon. On a plus note it puts the new file in the right place and optionally stacks it. I tried the new Lr denoise and man is it slow - about 4m (yes, MINUTES) - for the same file that PureRAW did in a fraction of that time. It does a good job but annoyingly doesn’t save to the original directory so Lightroom can’t stack with the original unless I manually move it. I use PureRAW 2 on a Ryzen 7 with integrated Radeon GPU and it has acceptable performance - about 15s on a noisy 20MP file using DeepPrime.
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