#Topaz denoise ai color shift iso#

#Topaz denoise ai color shift iso#

Regardless of all that technical stuff and trying to understand the best way to use it, it certainly does seem to work and I'll be finding it useful for theatre dress rehearsal shots where I usually have to use very high ISO with the resultant noise. I've seen different opinions on when you should denoise - I've typically done it towards the end of editing but before any sharpening and have seen that recommended but then I've also seen the opposite recommended so whatever works! Its just that for some time (I think until version 2.5) denoise needed the raws to be converted to jpeg or tiff with color noise removed (AI clear was good at denoising color noise). It's possible that the standalone is different because of the different demosaicing compared to Adobe but more likely it's because dng files from Adobe automatically have a camera profile applied (Adobe Color for example which is Adobe's idea of a starting point for your adjustments) but the dng files from Denoise don't seem to have one so you would have to make your own or just apply more adjustments than you would with a camera raw file imported using Adobe. Personally although AI clear was a bit of a revolution in denoising in 2018, the regular denoise that followed was much better. I compared all three (using Fuji RAF files) and the only difference I see is that using it as a Standalone gave that rather pale result that others have seen compared to using it in LR or going from LR to PS and using it there (and saving it back to LR). If you use it having opened in Photoshop you are likely using it on a dng file as that's what LR/PS uses internally but when you come to save the denoised file it has to be a new file (so again a TIFF file or one of the other available image file formats (but I don't think dng is available) If you use it from Lightroom you have to create a TIFF file because Lightroom can't store the denoise edits in an XMP file as it does with its own edits. If you use DeNoise as a standalone on a raw file from the camera it must handle the demosaicing internally and it will let you save the result as a DNG - leaving the original raw file untouched.

One consideration is that Topaz DeNoise can never actually do anything to the raw file as it comes out of the camera because that never changes and requires demosaicing into an image format before it will even look like an image. This article was helpful in understanding raw and dng files.

Sorry if I ramble on but I've been trying to explain to myself what I and others are experiencing.