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Denoise challenge - raw, jpeg, tiff provided

Started 9 months ago | Discussions thread
terraflop New Member • Posts: 12
Re: Denoise challenge - raw, jpeg, tiff provided

Erik Baumgartner wrote:

To my eye, Topaz puts in a pretty good showing (IMO), but by cleaning up the image before demosaicing, to my eye, DeepPrime definitely has a bit of an edge when it comes to separating the noise from the fine detail with very noisy/high ISO images like this one. I will have to take another look at PureRaw2,(although it's beyond annoying that it doesn't have the same fine-tuning capability as PL5).

It's definitely a good showing for Topaz, although I came to similar conclusions when testing the various solutions. Completely agree that DxO should have exposed more tuning options in PR2. Personally, I wasn't overly wedded to LR so decided to jump ship to PL and am generally happy so far (note that I'm just a hobbyist).

In general, I'd rather retain some grain than push denoising so far that things start to look weird (plasticy, watercolour paint effect, etc). I spent no more than 2 mins adjusting that image and could probably get more out of it with a little more time and effort. My aim was just to produce a fairly neutral rendering that demonstrated the denoise ability of DeepPRIME.

The one thing I know some people don't like about DeepPRIME is the time it takes to process an image. On my system with an RTX 2080 is takes around 6secs to process a 26MP RAF which I find acceptable.

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