I’ve seen less of this inconsistency with Adobe’s new Denoise tool, but I’ve still seen it on occasion. These issues have been reduced in recent versions, but it still happens. Or parts of the image are noticeably sharper than others. One part of the photo might be nice and smooth, but then another part has considerable noise. One of the issues I’ve run into with Topaz Denoise AI is that the results are often inconsistent across the image. (It took me 15-20 minutes to do so with an image that had a lot of them.) And the results are usually so good otherwise that for me it’s worth taking the time to clone out those little streaks. These streaks would be much less visible in a normal-size print. However, this is a 200% view, which is a great enlargement. I know Adobe is working to fix this particular issue, but again, there’s no timetable for when that might happen. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say they’ve been clarified with Denoise, so they’ve become more visible. If you look closely you can see that those faint little streaks are also visible in the version on the left – they’re just exacerbated after running Denoise. These streaks are actually present in the version on the left, but less visible, since they’re obscured by noise. ![]() Note the faint little streaks on the right. Manual noise reduction on the left, the new AI-powered Denoise on the right. Here’s a manually de-noised version of some stars on the left, and AI-powered Denoise on the right: ![]() The most consistent issue I’ve seen is that it often creates little streaks between stars in nighttime images. ![]() In my limited experience with this, the differences are usually minor, and not a problem, but that might not be true in every case.)Īnd while most of the time Denoise works great, I have run into some problems. (You can run the original raw files through Denoise before merging them with the HDR or Panorama Merge, but with AI you can get slightly different results with each image, so they might not merge seamlessly. Adobe hints that they will be adding support for other file formats in the future, but there’s no concrete timetable yet. But it doesn’t work with JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, ProRaw, or sRaw files, nor does it work on DNGs created with Lightroom’s HDR Merge or Panorama Merge. ![]() That means raw files generated by most cameras, even if those have been converted to DNG format. First of all, Adobe’s new AI-powered Denoise tool currently only works with Bayer and X-trans raw files. It’s already significantly improved some of my noisiest photographs, and opens up new possibilities going forward. Wildlife, sports, and street photographers often have to use high ISO settings to freeze motion in low light, and Adobe’s new AI-powered Denoise works equally well in those situations (maybe even better, since they’re usually less noisy).Īs you can tell, I’m very impressed with this new tool. Of course noise isn’t limited to nighttime images. But it works, and the result is much better than any other method I’ve tried. (I’ll talk more about how to use this tool below – or you can watch the video at the top of this post.) That’s pretty high, and made the result a bit soft, so I added some extra Sharpening, Texture, and Grain to the resulting file to bring back some detail. So much better! I did have to crank up the Denoise Amount to 70 to get rid of most of the hot pixels. 200% view with manual noise reduction on the left, new Denoise (Amount 70) on the right
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