Topaz Denoise AI For Bird Photographers 

I absolutely love this program to use with my Olympus m43 images. Yesterday I shot small birds all morning in heavy snowfall at ISO6400 with no concerns. They cleaned up nicely!!

Had not tried this software yet and after playing with it on 3 different images, I am sold. Thank you for the video!

I got the trial version of Topaz Denoise AI after you mentioned it in a recent video. I am really impressed with how effective it is and will be purchasing the program. Thanks for the information!

Thanks Tim....good to hear your views. I’ve been using the Topaz AI plugs for a while. They have certainly saved a lot of my bird images. Noise has been a nightmare for me for ages...always having to push the ISO so I am now a big fan of Topaz. Many thanks.

This is amazing, thanks for making the video!

Thank you for the walk through, I've been debating if I should get this or not.

Hi Tim, I’ve had the E-M1 Mark II for a year and last week I picked up the Olympus 75-300mm telephoto lens. Over the weekend I went out for my first dedicated venture at bird photography. Had a fun time and got great results with this lightweight kit. I am finding your videos extremely helpful. Thanks.

Excellent tutorial I learned a lot, Thank you!!

I love Denoise, it works better than anything else on the market!

THANKS FOR INFO

This really works properly on RAW files with no processing , doing all those changes before is a waste of time and the image

I have found that the AI Clear can do a pretty good job. It depends on the image.

very cool

Hey Tim...always informative and easy to watch and learn from. I do agree, however, with several of the others...denoise first, then make your corrections. And I would sharpen in only one place...Lightroom or Denoise.

I was on the fence until I tried the free trial. Bought it 5 minutes later!!

Having Topaz Denoise AI is having a new expensive lens. Btw, it's recommended that you crop, then Denoise, before making other adjustments. If your image is almost perfect to begin with, it doesn't matter what order you use, but if you have a noisy and unclear image it'd better to Denoise first before other adjustments.

Tim,i have been experimenting with Topaz Denoise and have found that doing both the cropping and the editing after applying Denoise not only improves the quality of the final image it also reduces the denoise computer processing time. The only pre-Denoise edits that appear to benefit the final images are adjustments tothe highlight and shadow areas to reveal lost detail in those areas

really good software. wish it would cater for industry level needs like linux support and command line batch processing. But you can deal with it.

Topaz Sharpen AI can correct blurry images. I had a few images of Red-tailed Hawks and Bald Eagles that were so blurry which would have been deleted. Sharpen AI corrected my mistake and saved the images. Just incredible.

Tim I too recently bought Topaz DeNoise AI 2.0.0. It has transformed my image quality with the Olympus files. I thought I would share with you my processing algorithm. I find I can get usable images up to ISO 6400 and occasionally beyond. I am not pretending these higher ISO images compare to Canon full frame but they are a whole lot better than they were originally. I use it as a Plug in in Photoshop. I always expose to the right and I use Shadows/Highlights in the viewfinder as opposed to the histogram. Workflow: 1 Check Colour Temp and Color Balance in the raw converter, I use ACR sometimes Olympus Workspace. ( I did use LR for a while but it filled up my C Drive and the PC ground to a halt!!) 2 Check Exposure only I do not sharpen at all - I think this important. Sharpening increases noise, this is axiomatic, I appreciate you can mask it but why generate it?? 3 Topaz Denoise much the same way you have outlined, I use DeNoise AI then click Auto then Manual to see if any parameters require a tweak. Occasionally I increase NR to Medium and very occasionally I increase the Sharpen. Usually (90%) the default settings are fine. At this point 99% of images are very much cleaner and adequately presharpened. I usually add Recover detail up to 20-25 4 To Photoshop or LR . In my case PS followed by Smart Object layer and I make an ACR layer then I process as if I was starting with the original raw file, I do not require any sharpening at this stage, Topaz has already done it! I only sharpen the final file used for printing or the jpeg for web distribution. 5. This results in comparatively much cleaner files than I have ever had previously. I think if you try this method you will find that the files are cleaner, have a go, see what you think. I am so pleased with the results I use this now on nearly all images (regardless of ISO) because I think the conversion is cleaner and sharper than ever before.

love you

Perhaps it would be nice to see how LR did in cleaning up the image?

Thanks for this Tim, great tutorial. Is it always wise to do the RAW sharpening/Exposure etc before Denoise? Many Thanks and stay safe!

hopefully it worksrep you helped me

I also bought it. It has side effect unnoticed by the others: the size of JPEG files is smaller, reduction from 30 to 50% depends on noise level. So I denoised my whole archive for 10 years thanks to batch processing in commercial version and reduced storage size by 30% approximately.

Topaz recommends that you run the Denoise program before any edits in Lightroom. I tried both ways and find that result is better when doing the editing after the Denoise. Have you tried it that way?

Tim, thanks for your videos. If you've tried Sharpen AI I'd be curious as to your thoughts of using it vs. Denoise AI. Is there that much of a distinction in what the respective algorithms will do for a photograph?

You should use noise reduction before doing anything else to the image other than cropping.

Exposure corrections, white balance aside, you should do as little processing on your images before putting them through Denoise... the results will be better. Same goes for topaz sharpen AI.

Nice video. I replaced my video card (2G VRAM) with a GetForce 2080 that has 8 G VRAM and it makes a HUGE difference in Topaz. Runs 4 or 5 times faster. Just one warning about DeNoise. It does not handle DNG files very well. I have talked to support and it is a known issue and being worked and they recommended just using TIFF files. My other question is why you would sharpen before you denoise. I would think you would try to eliminate the noise before you sharpened. That doesn't preclude you using a mask.

very encouraging to know that you can deal with noise at such high ISO. BTW, did you use the Olympus at 6400, or was it a full frame?

I've just purchased Denoise after trialling for the past month, it's a great tool. However using auto I've found it bumps up sharpening a little too much and noise reduction not enough so almost always go to manual after to bring noise up 10 and sharpen down about 10. Also trialling DxO Photolab with it's prime denoise and Topaz is simply better for me.

Many people point out that you should use DeNoise before sharpening in Lightroom, so does that mean we should zero out the sharpening from the default of 40 in Lightroom before handing it over to DeNoise?

Thanks for your tutorial. A question, please, Why did you sharpen (although masked), before using AI DeNoise? I thought the processing worked best by taking sharpening to zero first and not using any other adjustments that could add noise, then processing your pics? I’m not being critical, just asking for your reasoning to see and maybe better my processes. One more question, have you seen AI DeNoise: AI Clear; or AI Sharpen, add weird patterns or artifacts? (Especially on feathers and wildlife fur) ???

Hi Tim, thanks for this demonstration. It looks promising. Do you know how long this product has been around? I am certainly inclined to download and install the trial version to see how it performs. Does anyone know if the trial version is full functional? Thanks

Hi, Maybe wrong? But does sharpening not introduce noise? If so why sharpen in L/R and then in Topaz sharpening is applied again automatic when you open an image? Thank You.

Topaz Denoise Ai saves to tiff automatically, but I save all of my edited raw pictures to jpg. Can I save the tiff to jpg? I don't know too much technically, but know that jpg take up less space & know that stock agencies require jpg. Also, I edit in photoshop after doing some edits in lightroom. Can I continue to work on the denoised pictures in photoshop? thanks

Nice video but using denoise is legal in any competion or for photography ?

doesnt lightroom do the same just tinker with the sliders since you have lightroom already

I process RAW files using Luminar 4, Aurora HDR and Topaz Denoise AI. What's the preferred workflow edits for using all three softwares? I process my RAW files in this manner. (1) Only add a few light / tint corrections to my NEF RAW files and (2) Send to Topaz AI for edits as a TIFF file, (3) Send this TIFF file to Aurora for edits, (4) Send this TIFF file to Luminar 4 and complete all edits, (5) Save this processed TIFF file as a JPEG. Is there a preferred way when using all three of these software products?

Nikon d800E is a 36 MP camera but we get the idea

On what format do you edit in Topaz

Moi il marche pas bien car je n'ai pas les mêmes rendus que toutes ces vidéos. Dfine2 de Dxo fait un meilleur travail pour moi

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In my opinion the AI-gain is not obvious compared to DeNoise 6. I think the AI argument is oversold for some of Topaz' filters. I have not experienced a noise pattern that AI could manage better than DN6. AI may be easier for uncomplicated situations, but otherwise the unpredictable controls and general slow performance is a set back. When the shadows are totally broken up the AI Clear can be efficient with careful masking. Maybe AI means Arguably Intelligent.

Over rated software.. lowering the structure in lightroom does exactly the same