[Leica] Topaz AI and Film Grain

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Just an addendum about the Topaz products - as Denoise and Sharpen both do
noise reduction and sharpening, using them together on an image might lead
to overkill. Decide whether noise reduction or sharpening is the critical
adjustment for an image and work with one or the other that you feel is
appropriate.

OT, but some might find it useful. For High ISO digital RAW files, DXO
PureRAW works extremely well, even though the user has no control of what
is going on. It is now far more usable as it has been integrated into
Lightroom, and can be used from within Lightroom. It is not for every
image, but it is like magic on noisy, high ISO images. DXO are also one of
the market leaders in Lens Correction software, and that library is fully
integrated into PureRAW. For those with a need, give it a whirl - there is
a 30 day trial version available.

https://www.dxo.com/dxo-pureraw/

Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 10:08 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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