[Leica] Topaz AI and Film Grain

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

I forgot to mention that the team that developed Luminar is virtually the
same one that developed Nik - they left Nik after Google took it over and
started Skylum, which is the parent company of Luminar.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 10:14 PM Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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