Topaz Denoise AI

Topaz just released the product which you can get on a trial.

Or you can get it free if you already own Topaz AI Clear or Denoise.

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Be sure to check System Requirements

Extremely slow on my iMac but it doesn't meet the specs. Doesn't for AI Clear either but it works quite well. Reading other forums it appears quite buggy even after the few recent updates.

Yea, kinda weird behavior for me. I denoised an image at the top of the workflow as recommended. It reduced noise overall but in some small areas it actually seemed to insert more noise. No masking was going on.

Well I am completely confused about this software.

If I have a RAW file in Lightroom CC Classic as I understand it you bring the file into DeNoise before making any adjustments. Then what...is the file brought back into Lightroom as a RAW file?

Can anybody explain this while process? Wouldn't I want to edit the RAW file after running it though DeNoise?

Topaz spits it out as a .dng, but it actually is a rendered tif in a DNG wrapper (what is sometimes called a "Linear Dng") and is about as editable in LR as any 16 bit tif - not Raw (which means unedited) but containing more data and flexibility than a jpg.

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Yea, kinda weird behavior for me. I denoised an image at the top of the workflow as recommended. It reduced noise overall but in some small areas it actually seemed to insert more noise. No masking was going on.

I have also noted that the new Topaz Sharpener AI leaves some area unchanged and sharpens some areas more than others

So far in this small thread, it seems to be slanting toward a fail.

Anybody in tune with other threads on other forums?

Success or fail?

On KelbyOne, have not seem failure posts.

Having used Topaz Denoise AI since it was released i find it most usable for mobile phone photography, such as these examples show. It does a wonderful job cleaning up the heavy noise in the DNG files from my phone camera. These two examples were created with a older version, the latest one's produce even better results.