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Same. While processing a recent trips‘ photos I compared cleanup with LRC‘s new AI DeNoise feature vs Topaz photo ai on perhaps 30 photos and preferred LRC’s new module in all cases. I am new to Topaz, but those were my results, felt the LRC results much more natural looking.
That's what the rep said, again today in fact.
I think the equipment we have does impact how fast software may work. I'm not a tech-oriented person, although I know enough to get in trouble, but maybe you could have your equipment evaluated. Topaz may work faster, you'd have to run some tests. I find LrC to be fast but I generally use the fastest equipment (I use a mac). There are so many differences in what we all do that it's sometimes difficult to determine where the problem is originating from.
thanks. this worked out for me:
I have not timed my Mac Studio but I would put it at about a minute for one file (seems better on batch operations). What is nice is I can easily select a number of files and batch denoise them. I think I did around 100 files (16,000 to 25,600 ISO) and it took about 45 min. I just let it run in the background while I did other stuff in LRC. As soon as each file is complete you can start doing your selects as they continue to process in the background. For me this workflow is hands-down better than Topaz or DXO. Still not sure what the best option of the three is going forward.
That was my conclusion also! Way more natural looking image.
I am with you Eric. I use only Topaz Denoise AI 95% of the time. I feel Photo Ai does too much for my liking. I do use Topaz Sharpen AI at times with masking but not often. I will probably not renew any upgrade licenses for Topaz products if Denoise Ai is no longer improved. I also use DXO NIK software and will take a look at Define, NIK's demoise. Perhaps DXO has improved Define. I also have DXO PL but have not found a way to easily integrate PL's Prime noise reduction seamlessly into Photoshop whereas NIK is nicely integrated into PS.
I agree and think it was a very bad business decision on their part.
I have also been messing with DXO PureRaw 3.0 and at first I didn't like it. It was leaving a lot of noise in the background in images with ISO calues of just ISO2000 at times. But I have learned how and when to use it. Sometimes I only need to use PureRaw and sometimes just Topaz Denoise and there are times when I use PureRaw and then Topaz Denoise.
Do you mean DXO PL or PureRaw? I find it odd that sometimes PureRaw 3.0 does a fantastic job on an image and others with less noise and already good feather detail that it adds way to much sharpening and artifacts even with the soft sharpening option. When it works it works well, but it's not close to consistent. More times then not I use Topaz Denoise, and it's what I use for sharpening so even my ISO500 images i usually run through Denoise AI in the clear model. That is usually the most natural sharpening even over LR.
Just got home and am installing the update for HE* support. Note the Z8 fix. This is months late but ok. I too am likely to not renew. My reason is they don't seem to ever have a stable version. They fix one thing and break another. I believe Adobe will continue to improve their offering. I will see how this works shortly.
