[Leica] Topaz AI and Film Grain

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

As Sonny says, Denoise gives far more control, as Topaz has one of the best
making tools on the market, so it is easy to do localised edits.

If you want global noise reduction, the "Noiseless" module in Luminar AI is
very good.

https://skylum.com/luminar-ai

Cheers
Jayanand




On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 8:07 PM Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> LUG -
>
> I really like the way Topaz Photo AI rescues some of the faces in my old
> film scans; however, the end result is too plastic and smooth-looking for
> me.  I've tried reducing the amount of smoothing but that reduces the
> sharpness, too.  What I would like to do is re-introduce the film grain
> without affecting the sharpening.  I've tried in PS - Filter>Noise>Add
> Noise>Guassian Blur and I've tried the Grain slider in LR but neither of
> them looks like film grain really.
>
> Do you know of a program or setting that will add realistic-looking film
> grain?
>
> TIA
>
> Tina
>
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