HOW & WHEN to Use Topaz Plugins in Lightroom 

If you're unsure of when to use Topaz Labs Denoise AI, Gigapixel AI, or Sharpen AI in your workflow, this video should help. In it, I demo how I use these apps in a real world situation in my Lightroom workflow. If you're interested in Denoise AI, Sharpen AI, or Gigapixel AI by Topaz Labs, click the link below and scroll down to the applicable section. Bundles are also available toward the bottom: bit.ly/3cDqa5J To purchase, click on the link above then use my discount code to save and additional 15% off the price and on everything at the Topaz Labs: AMDISC15 *Note that my 15% discount code may not work on sale product. I have a free Photo Editing Software Comparison Guide To get it, all you need to do is subscribe to my weekly newsletter. Once you do, you'll receive a link to down the guide. To subscribe to my newsletter, go to my website: OnlinePhotographyTraining.com Look on the right hand column for the newsletter signup box. Enter your email address and within a few minutes, you should receive, in your email, a link to download the guide. The guide is a PDF and you'll need a PDF reader to open it. The newsletter is sent out every Monday. You can unsubscribe at anytime by clicking the unsubscribe link located at the bottom of the newsletter. I NEVER sell, share, or distribute anyone's email address or any other information. Image in the video captured with: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases Nikon D500: amzn.to/2WyO8Lt Nikon 200-500mm F5.6 Lens: amzn.to/2WpggM2 Sony 120GB XQD Card: amzn.to/2HlfR8Y Sony XQD/SD Card Reader: amzn.to/2NBuSHB Anthony Morganti’s MUST HAVE applications: At least one Non-Destructive RAW Editor: Lightroom - bit.ly/2zwQ0nW Capture One - captureone.38d4qb.net/y1Djy Luminar - bit.ly/2JUJxKw (Save with the Promo Code AM16) On1 Photo RAW - bit.ly/2zJmA9I (Save 20% with Promo Code: AM17) Exposure X6 - bit.ly/2U8UxrK (Save 10% with Promo Code: AnthonyMorganti) PhotoLab 4: tidd.ly/2HhiN9X (Save 15% off with Promo Code: Anthony15 - Valid until 2/2/2021 - May not work when product is on sale) At least one FULL Editing App: Photoshop - bit.ly/2zwQ0nW Affinity Photo - affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/ My MUST HAVE Plugins: Topaz Denoise AI - bit.ly/3cDqa5J Topaz Gigapixel AI - bit.ly/3cDqa5J Topaz Sharpen AI - bit.ly/3cDqa5J *Save 15% on all Topaz Labs apps - use the Promo Code: AMDISC15 Nik Silver Efex Pro 2 - tidd.ly/3dc4gYm Save 15% off the Nik Collection with Promo Code: Anthony15 - Valid until 2/2/2021 My MUST HAVE Mac Utility: CleanMyMac X - Info: bit.ly/3jtVpU3 To save 10% on your purchase of CleanMyMac X: 1. Visit the CleanMyMac X store: bit.ly/3bEMuMx 2. Scroll down to the very bottom of the page and click on "Enter it now" under "Already have a coupon code?" 3. Paste the promo code TONY10 and hit "Verify" 4. The prices will be reduced and you’ll be able to select the license and proceed with the payment ** Note that all of the promo codes listed above may not work on sale product. *** I am an affiliate for all of the companies listed EXCEPT Affinity Photo. Please read my Code of Ethics Statement: onlinephotographytraining.com/code-of-ethics/ Please follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/anthonymorganti/ View my recommended gear list: www.amazon.com/shop/anthonymorganti As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases I use this software to record my screen and make parts of my screen enlarge and zoom out so you can see it: Screenflow: telestream.pxf.io/DMrW2 Unsure of how to price your photography? Check the 2019 Guide to Pricing Your Photography: amzn.to/2S1CiU7 I am an affiliate for all of the companies listed EXCEPT Affinity Photo. Please read my Code of Ethics Statement here: onlinephotographytraining.com/code-of-ethics/ Thank you!

Another outstanding tutorial, Anthony. Thank you so much. This one really scratches an itch.

Thanks, Anthony. I was also curious to know about this workflow. Helps a lot!

just bought the topaz bundle and love watching your videos. easy to understand whilst showing your knowledge of TOPAZ and LR thank you

Thanks as always Anthony. This cleared up a number of questions that I had about the workflow. Happy holidays!

Very useful! I'm often encountering this scenario where I'm shooting at an elevated ISO. Helpful also that you detail the camera and lens used. Thank you!

Really really helpful. Thanks very much. I've been shooting pictures for decades, but I'm finally learning how to edit my pictures and turn them into photographs thanks to tutorials such as this.

Thanks. Great video explaining your workflow, was really interesting knowing how in the real world framing & zoom sometimes doesn't happen.

This was soooo helpful! I just bought the bundle . Thanx so much!

Thank you and Merry Christmas!

Thanks for another great video. It will really help my workflow. By the way, great shot!

Fantastic video. Exactly what I was looking for today.

Thank you Anthony, I love your videos!

Wow, I did not realize there was a multi panel view! Will go find...you just saved me LOTS of time! Great video, thanks!

Thank you, Anthony for yet another helpful video. Season's Greetings!

Another great tutorial, thanks !

I recently got the suite and this is helpful. I shoot a lot with the smaller sensor Sony RX100 vii and RX10, and I find Denoise is particularly useful. Thanks!

Looking for this kind of information. Thanks for the video...👍

So helpful! Thank you!

Really enjoyed following on with this Video Anthony, always do FWIW but enamoured enough to comment. cheers 🇦🇺👊

Great video. Very informative and helpful. Thank you.

Thanks for the video, it helped me a lot. I am just beginning with this kind of workflow. I had a very flat-looking image shot underwater in murky conditions. I found that the only way to get anywhere was to use dehaze in Lightroom. Being shot at 200 ISO the image wasn't noisy per se, however, dehaze appeared to add considerable noise. Using dehaze in the beginning and DeNoise after that seemed to solve the problem. The rest of the processing was done later and didn't add any extra noise.

Always thumps up before watching. 😄

outstanding tutorial sir

Useful information about the Topaz trio. I'm running LR at version 13.1 with Edit>Preferences>Presets [tab]>Raw Defaults, Master set to "Camera Settings" and the Develop profile settings are gone. I can select "Color" or "Monochrome", or "Browse...".

Hi Anthony. Love the content you put up. Could you do a comparison of Topaz Gigapixel vs Topaz JpegtoRaw. They seem to be very similar if applied to a Jpeg image & I am wondering if it is worthwhile having both.

LOVE this video - super informative for a newbe. I bought the 3 Topaz package but only DeNoise (along with Photoshop) shows up in "edit in" when I right click on LR image. How do I add Sharpen and Gigapixel to the "edit in"? TIA

Very helpful Anthony. I've just about completed my matrix of when to use LR adjustments, bring in DeNoise, lob to PS for local adjustments that I can't do in LR. Why do you denoise before the crop?

Thank you for the video. It is really helpful. About Gigapixel: do you use that primarily if you will be printing the image or are there other reasons to use it?

Great up until the end and then nothing for Sharpen AI. While I agree that this image sharpened up just fine with the Lightroom tools, it would have been nice to see Anthony's Sharpen AI workflow. Perhaps there is another video, need to do some more searching.

Anthony love ya but.... DEEEEEEEEEE NOISE! Deeeee as in Bee, or pre, or flea lol. Deeeeenoise :). Love ya work!

Excellent video. One question that’s been bugging me: Do you keep all the intermediate TIFF files that get created at each stage? As cameras produce increasingly large original files, these get to be a drain on storage resources.

Nice tutorial, would you use super zoom and/or enhance RAW details before sending to Topaz?

Useful information about the Topaz trio. Let's cut the chase. We pay the Mudbricks to innovate LR (=CR) and PS, and denoise, upscaling/upsampling as well as sharpening are all in these products. We accept it is not good enough and spend money elsewhere to get what we thought we already had bought? And the Mudbricks keep developing similar functions on different platforms with different programmers to different quality levels. The base raw processing engine in LR is now (10.1) the same as in Camera Raw (13.1), which proves they have already had one lightbulb moment. I think they can do better with our money. If they treat us subscribers more like shareholders, they will be able to satisfy the shareholders better. Also, I would have expected support for my new camera and its lenses more so than just being able to open a raw file. I have 5 prime lenses with that new camera that are of between 1 and 2 years old launch date. What The Fotography, Mudbricks!

Thanks for the great workflow with these plug ins. Question: I bought them as part of a package about 3 years ago. With these products are updates part of initial purchase or do I need to purchase latest version ? Thanks and Happy New Year!

What’s your thought on using the Sharpening Mask slider? I notice that towards the end of the video, when you added sharpening, you didn’t add a mask.

Can you do a comparison video to Luminar Neo?

love the topaz plugin !!! However, I am haing trouble sending multiple images to Ai sharpen. I select 3 or 4 pics in lightroom and then go to "edit in " menu but only one picture goes to AI sharpern. What am I doing wrong?? I am using a PC by the way.

Question: when you update a Topaz plug in in Lightroom the EDIT IN list now shows 2 listings, so which one is the most updated one? so that I can delete the duplicated older version. Thank You!

I use them in a different order. 1. Gigapixel, 2. Denoise, 3. Sharpen (rarely necessary). Denoise necessarily loses detail, so in my view better to enlarge with Gigapixel first, and keep sharpening and noise reduction to a minimum. Then Gigapixel is working with real pixels and needs to make less additions in enlarging. Gigapixel also tends to oversharpen, even with sharpening set to minimum. Then running Denoise afterwards helps to correct some of the artefacts introduced by Gigapixel. If I need Sharpen, perhaps to correct motion blur or camera shake, then it is often better to apply this first, before Gigapixel, so that Gigapixel is enlarging a better quality starting point image, rather than having to interpret how to enlarge out of focus or blurry parts of the image which need to be corrected. Just my view, everyone can experiment for themselves to find what suits them best.

Can you edit the file name automatically when sending it to a plug-in? Like buy the time it’s over a file would say image001.edit.edit.edit.tif. Would be great to say image.001.DN.JPEG. (DN Denoise) just to know what program you used.

I use these products all the time and find them very helpful. I am annoyed with them though as they have changed policies since I purchased the products and now require payment for upgrades. I have version 2.2.2 of the denoise and 2.1.8 of the sharpen program. Not sure if the newer versions will make a difference in my results other than having the extra panels. Any thoughts about the upgrades impacting my actual results?

I bought all three Topaz products. I have a Mac and cannot figure out hot to use them as plug-ins.

How do you save it

Why do you want to use Gigapixel AI first and then Sharpen AI? Why not the other way around? Both methods assume one uses DeNoise AI in the first step.

Once you have completed your scenario, in my experience, you should be left with 4 versions of the photo “unstacked” at the bottom of your screen. What do you do then? Collapse the stack? Just curious.

unfortunately when i try to edit in denoise that program opens then closes.

Does this work with Lightroom or only Lightroom Classic?

As always anther great tutorial. Do you use any of these Topaz plugins with Luminar AI? If so, when would you use Topaz Plugins with Luminar AI?

I love the Topas stuff, BUT you CANNOT use the plugins with LRcc, only classic or NON CC versions! ...according to Topaz support! Great stuff though.

Why the weird pronunciation of "denoise"(deenoyze)? Your D'Noise had me thinking you were alluding to the creative works of the famous Italian sculptor, Umberto D'Noise.

Why does everybody only use Lightoom Classic? Interfase looks so ugly.