[Leica] Topaz AI and Film Grain

[Tina Manley]

Wow.  That looks amazing.

Thanks!

Tina


On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 12:38 PM Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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