#Topaz denoise ai before sharpen ai manual

Sharpen AI is very slow process anyway, but once sharpening and noise reduction parameters are defined and assigned to each image file, the processing can be postponed in a batch, e.g run at night.A good graphics card is a must. That‘a my biggest concern right there - long delays in previewing and screen updates. I did find that if I tried to zoom all the way out on that system, it would freeze due to my limited 8 GB of RAM. You can disable automatic preview updates, and the preview only processes the viewable area (which is why zooming in helps). Unless I was zoomed way in, updating the preview was slow. It took almost 2.5 minutes to process and export a 24 MP K3 II file (yay for delayed batch processing), but the bigger issue was the preview and manipulation. When I first started Topaz DeNoise, it was on a laptop about two generations older than yours, with integrated graphics. If I do have a high ISO/noisy photo, I may run it both ways to compare, but it's handling regular noise this way just fine so far. It's said I'll sacrifice a little noise reduction, but that's more than offset by the better color results and less artifacts by using RT for capture sharpening. I prefer running my RAWs through RAW Therapee first, making my color and lens corrections, exporting as tiffs, then running those tiffs through DeNoise. It's just 3 option on the method of noise removal, and 4 slider settings for each.Īs for when to use it, I recently stopped putting it at the front of the line. It used to be 30 days free, but I think they recently changed it to remove the time limit in lieu of adding their own watermark to the images. I can also now view the entire image in the preview if I want.

My new system has an i5-8400 that will export in about a minute if I force CPU processing (an option in the program), or 15-20 seconds if I process on my Nvidia 1060 3GB card. Just don’t seem to have the patience to become proficient.When I first started Topaz DeNoise, it was on a laptop about two generations older than yours, with integrated graphics. Might give Topaz a go, played with a lot of other packages, but found the learning curve is steep. Yours is a lot faster than mine, so would have to plan for night duty for sure. Looking forward to exploring your new group, and participating if I end up getting Topaz. As is tonal depth (actually this is primary in my mind, more important than anything else). Good sharp, detailed, noise-free images are important to me.

Subject matter ranges from nature and landscapes, to urban and architecture. So I am confident that I am getting the best out of the camera in terms of optics and technique.

#Topaz denoise ai before sharpen ai manual

It would be great to hear your experience with print sizes from your K5.įYI, I have some good glass - DA 12-24 DA* 50-135 and a bunch of carefully curated and quite sharp manual focus primes and zooms (both Pentax and 3rd party.Vivitar Series 1, for example). If I can do 20x24 for really special images, then I would be very happy, but I am a bit sceptical that the K5ii can go that big. I will likely be printing mostly 11x14 size, and up to 16x20. I will check out your new group - I saw your intro post on that, but haven't looked recently. I'll be posting examples as I work through some recent K-1 acquired images, as well as older K-5 or other digital captrues, as well recovering as some scanned photos. I've only started using the software, but I've been impressed with both the ease of use and the results so far. I've made large prints from images captured on a K-5 without problems, what size are you looking to print?įWIW, I've started a PF group for Topaz users.