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Denoise challenge - raw, jpeg, tiff provided

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Rightsaidfred
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Re: darktable take // leave the fine grains in

sluggy_warrior wrote:

Rightsaidfred wrote:

What was still missing, a darktable take.

IMO it cannot compete against professional denoising tools. Maybe others can get better result with darktable.

Agreed, the "profiled denoise" in darktable is just generic, while it's not bad, it cannot compete with the "smart" AI/neural-network tools.

Yes.

That's why the nind-denoise's author is looking into having the tool integrated into darktable workflow, too.

Much appreciated.

For high-ISO shots, I prefer leaving the fine grains in. They not only help with retaining details, they keep the perceived sharpness, as well as simulating the old film grain (addressing only chroma noise, not luma noise). Also, when you resize the image to a smaller size, the grains will be gone while the detail and sharpness contribute to the sharpness of the smaller image.

You're right. Yours has more grain but looks better than mine.

Thank you very much!

Kind regards,

Martin

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