You used the Clear model, but I wonder if the Standard or one of the other models might be able to handle it better? There is no doubt that Denoise AI does not do as well as DXO DeepPrime and also more effort is required going through the 4 models, adjusting sliders, etc., but the Clear model is not always the best one to use. In Denoise AI this is the help info for the models: TDNAI 3.3 vs DxO TDNAI did a good job on the feather, but not on the rest, where DxO was much closer to the reference image.
This composite image shows small crops of the TDNAI 3.3 image compared with a reference ISO 100 No NR and DxO DeepPRIME. I processed the DPR test card in both, as well as DxO, and the latter remains far ahead.
So what I'm saying is, I've loaded every version of Topaz Denoise via Lightroom, so that must be as a plugin and yet it says external.Ĭheck this out: DeNoise AI v3.3 Lightroom Plugin Update Instructions - Topaz Labs It said 'Topaz Denoise A1 3.3.0 External' but with the save button and no apply button.
And then an update message appeared saying 'new version 3.3.0 is available' asking if I wanted to install it which I did. Prior to installing 3.3.0, I had loaded the 3.2.0 Topaz as a plugin via Lightroom, just as I have for all previous versions. Thing is, I've re-installed the previous version and when loading it via Lightroom it says at the top left 'Topaz Denoise A1 3.2.0 External' but it has the 'Apply' button and it's returning the edited file back into Lightroom, so no issue there. Also, if you are passing a RAW file to Denoise AI it may not return an edited RAW as there is no such thing, then you can only Save the output to a different format, so one of these 2 things must me happening. I don't know anything about LR, but that's how Denoise AI works. If it says Save, it means the app was launched as an external editor, not as a plugin.
I hope some of this is making sense to anyone reading. Any idea what's going on with my edit file?ĮDIT: I see now that in the source folder, it creates a copy of the edit.tif file that it creates in Lightroom and once the Topaz edit is complete, it also saves an 'edit.tif low light' or 'edit.tif severe light' file in the source folder with the changes.
I don't know why Topaz have made it more complicated now. I need it to save the changes to the edit.tif file it created in Lightroom just before Topaz loaded. I click on that and it says 'Output image will be saved in the same directory as your original.' So it then saves the edited tif file with all the changes into my source folder which isn't what I want. There's no 'Apply' now, it says 'Save Image' instead. However, in this latest version, it still creates the edit.tif file in Lightroom but for some reason isn't saving any low or severe light changes to it. Once I'm happy, I click apply, it processes the edit, Topaz closes, and the edit.tif file in Lightroom shows the new edit changes. I then edit in Topaz and usually choose low light or severe light. Once I click 'Edit', just as it then goes ahead to load Topaz, I can see an edit.tif file being created in Lightroom. Normally when I right click on an image in Lightroom and then click on 'Edit In Topaz Denoise A1', a Topaz edit box comes up with 'Edit a copy with Lightroom Adjustments' with all the standard copy file options (File Format TIFF, Color Space ProPhoto RGB, Bit Depth 16 bits, Resolution 300, Compression None). Has anyone here installed the latest 3.3.0 update for Topaz Denoise A1? I've updated mine and I can't figure something out.