You can see the before and after noise reduction and the preservation of details.Įvery photo is different, and your adjustments will vary from image to image. Here's an extreme enlargement of part of a photo taken just after sunset. Having said that, I never had to push those sliders very hard, because using the split screen feature and looking at the image at 400 percent magnification, I could easily find a setting where image grain (noise) was made invisible and I was not losing detail. I can report that if you use the sliders in DeNoise AI aggressively, you're going to lose some detail, add some halos, or increase sharpness to the degree that you may see some micro-image breakup. (It may be hard to see the improvement in these samples because I'm limited to small compressed files for uploading, but you can download large samples at the Topaz site.) You can see below how the sky is cleaned up in this enlargement without doing damage to the stars. Looking at those images, again, I found DeNoise AI significantly reduced the noise with no visible degradation of detail. I also do a lot of night photography, capturing the Milky Way, and I also do some telescope-based imaging.
Camera sensors are getting better and better, but there was not a single image I fed DeNoise AI that was not improved, even when inspecting the image at high magnifications. Working in reduced light and at high ISOs are an invitation to noise. Most of my imaging is in low light, as I do almost all my landscape work around sunrise and sunset.
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With some detailed testing, I can say that Topaz DeNoise AI works better than any similar software I've ever tried. Its claim to fame is Topaz inspected thousands of noisy images and added AI smarts to help this new app/plugin know the difference between noise and actual data in an image. Over the years, I used the Topaz DeNoise plugin with fair to good results, and now, it's been updated to Topaz DeNoise AI.
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