[Leica] I came over to the dark side

[Nathan Wajsman]

Yes, I use the AI noise reduction more and more as well. Great tool.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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> On 2 Mar 2025, at 23:18, Christopher Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:
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> I have used the subscription service a long time. I haven’t tried the AI object removal stuff yet, but one AI tool in the current version of Lightroom that I use all the time is the AI Noise Reduction. It is absolutely incredible. I can shoot at ISO-3200 with my Olympus m4/3 gear, which has a lot of noise at 3200, and the AI Noise tool removes 100% of the noise with NO reduction in resolution. The regular noise reduction slider, which is part of the sharpening controls, smears out image detail if you set it high enough to totally remove ISO-3200 noise from m4/3 images. Even on images shot at the base ISO-200 setting, the AI Noise Reducer gives more fine resolution than I get with the standard NR control.
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> From: LUG <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org> on behalf of "Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Reply-To: "Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
> To: Leica Reflex <LeicaReflex at freelists.org>, "Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Cc: Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Leica] I came over to the dark side
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> Yep.  I actually purchased the Adobe Photographer subscription a while 
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> back before the prices went up.  I have not done much with it yet 
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> preferring to stick with Lightroom 6 and CS6, but I  have gotten curious 
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> about the AI abilities in removing objects.  I have to say I am mostly 
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> impressed.  Here are a few examples from a recent trip to Leavenworth.  
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> They are doing a lot of construction along the main drag so there was 
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> lots of equipment interfering with the usual nice views, so I took some 
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> shots anyway specifically to try the AI removal tools in LR and 
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> Photoshop. Here are the results.
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> Original Image with some offending outhouses: Leavenworth WA-1004237 
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004237.jpg.html>
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> A little AI removal: Leavenworth WA-1004237-Edit 
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004237-Edit.jpg.html>
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> Another original image with trucks and structures: Leavenworth 
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> WA-1004234 
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004234.jpg.html>
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> And AI removal: Leavenworth WA-1004234-Edit 
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004234-Edit.jpg.html>
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> If you were to blow them up and look carefully I am sure you could see 
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> they were worked on.  For one thing, the AI synthisized image is much 
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> lower resolution than the Q3 original image.  I think it is 1 or 2 K 
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> resolution.  And of course there would be a few artifacts that if I was 
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> really industrious I would have to work on.  But by and large they took 
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> a totally unacceptable image and made it into a pretty good mediocre 
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> image in my unskilled hands.  Maybe you are an old hand at this so these 
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> seem pretty amateurish to you.  Maybe I will work on it or maybe I will 
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> just take more time to line shots up that do not require the use of this 
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> tool.  Be a real photographer rather than a technician.
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> Comments welcome.
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