Denoise challenge - raw, jpeg, tiff provided

Fun and probably educational challenge Martin.

I liked Eric's idea to use native noise removal I decided to do the noise removal the old way.  I did two conversions.  First I pulled down the whites and highlights to recover some detail.  The I adjusted the white balance using the ACR sampling tool on the rabbit's white area.  Next I darkened the image till all the white detail was visible and completed the conversion by bringing the image into photoshop.  I created another layer making the first conversion the background layer.  I named the new layer noise reduction.  Then I opened the image in ACR again and adjusted noise removal to my liking which was a rather strong 80 and left everything else from the previous conversion and opened in Photoshop.  I copied the image with noise removal into the noise removal layer of the first image.  I selected the background layer and sharpened with Topaz AI Sharpen and then applied a bit more sharpening via USM.  I selected the top layer and erased the areas I want to reveal the sharpening and then flattened the image.  As I'd made the image darker to protect the whites I used shadow/highlights to taste and then checked in levels and brought up the white point.  As there were a few bright and distracting spots I cleaned them up via cloning and or the burn tool.

This worked so well it makes me wonder if I should contuse to pay for the plugins.  Will need to test more to see.

Morris