Topaz Denoise vs Lightroom NR

Started Feb 25, 2023 | Discussions thread
maltmoose Veteran Member • Posts: 3,477
Re: Topaz Photo AI
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stevevp wrote:

bakubo wrote:

Yes, I had the same thoughts. Topaz Photo AI which gets better with every weekly release combines denoise, sharpen, enlarging, and face recovery. I rarely use the enlarging functionality, but the others in combination are sometimes very useful. It would be great if Adobe could do this also within LrC.

Unfortunately, this is not what I've found. I now find way more artifacts and have largely gone back to Denoise AI.

I find with many images Photo AI just over does the denoising of the images completely obliterating detail. Imagine a noisy photo of a dog, Photo AI just smooths away the fur and looks terrible and unnatural to the point that the original noisy image looks better.

There is no way to reduce this affect in Photo AI.. Reducing the sliders does not have enough affect in reducing the denoise. Unfortunately this seems to be by design. Hopefully they will fix this in the future and allow reducing the noise reduction to Zero if needed.

If you process the same image in Denoise AI you can achieve an acceptable result with a small amount of cleaned up noise but greatly improved dog fur. Once you see the difference, Photo AI becomes unusable..

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