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„Export as DNG (Noise reduc­tion & opti­cal cor­rec­tions only)“Īs a DNG file back to Light­room and post-processed so that bright­ness, col­or sat­u­ra­tion and con­trast were com­pa­ra­ble. After­wards, it was con­vert­ed again with the option this is in accor­dance with my usu­al work­flow. I then passed the image as a CR3 file from Light­room Clas­sic to DxO PhotoLab4, where it was denoised using the Deep­PRIME algo­rithm (Lumi­nance set­ting 100).

Here are two more crops in 100% scale: Ibis head - edit­ed with Light­room Clas­sic CC Ibis plumage - edit­ed with Light­room Clas­sic CC The result is still clear­ly noisy even in the reduced version: Ibis at ISO 12,800 Here, first of all, you can see the orig­i­nal ver­sion of the image, inten­sive­ly processed in Light­room to my taste (Expo­sure -0.66, Con­trast +58, High­lights -100, Depths +100, Clar­i­ty +28, Dynam­ics +21, Denois­ing and Sharp­en­ing to Stan­dard), down­sized to 1600px long edge. I tried to final­ly edit all images in Light­room Clas­sic so that col­ors, con­trast and bright­ness are as sim­i­lar as pos­si­ble. To com­pare, I down­loaded the tri­al ver­sion of Topaz Denoise AI from the link above and used it with an ISO 12,800 image from my pho­to library to eval­u­ate its results against those of DxO Pho­to­Lab 4 and DxO PureRAW. Spoil­er: unlike DxO Pho­to­Lab 4, I won’t buy the full ver­sion of Topaz Denoise AI - the rea­son follows…

Since I was told by sev­er­al peo­ple that excel­lent noise reduc­tion is also achiev­able with Topaz Denoise AI, I want­ed to test Topaz Denoise AI myself and com­pare the results with those of the Deep­PRIME algorithm. More infor­ma­tion about the DxO pro­grams can be found here on my web­site, where I have already test­ed both: I use both pro­grams exclu­sive­ly for noise reduc­tion all fur­ther pro­cess­ing is done in Adobe Light­room Clas­sic, as I have been accus­tomed to for years. I’ve recent­ly start­ed using the Deep­PRIME algo­rithm devel­oped by DxO, which is includ­ed in DxO Pho­to­Lab 4 Elite and, more recent­ly, in DxO Pur­eRAW. Nowa­days, use­ful results can even be achieved with images tak­en at ISO 12,800, some­thing that was mere­ly incred­i­ble just a few years ago. Par­tic­u­lar­ly since the appear­ance of AI (arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence) algo­rithms, there are con­tin­u­ous­ly improv­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties for noise reduc­tion with high-ISO images. Image pro­cess­ing soft­ware is also evolv­ing.

Mod­ern cam­era sen­sors are becom­ing more and more light-sen­si­tive and pro­duce con­tin­u­ous­ly less noise.