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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 730729" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p><strong>Topaz DeNoise AI: Color Me Converted</strong></p><p></p><p>Some days ago after having mused on this thread a bit I decided to revisit Topaz DeNoise AI and, after finding a discount code that brought the cost down to something I could swallow/not have the lovely and charming Mrs. Fish giving me dirty looks about, I bit the bullet and purchased a license. Installation goes smoothly and things are chugging along just fine. At this point I'm thinking version 2.0 is doing a pretty decent job, especially considering the size of the typical D850 raw file. Life is good.</p><p></p><p><strong>*Time Passes*</strong></p><p></p><p>So now I'm a few days in to learning the ins-and-outs of DeNoise - while practicing proper social distancing and working from home - when a couple DeNoise updates come along (v2.1.1 and v2.1.2) and just like that everything goes sideways. Hard. Image previews are choppy and slow to refresh, some of the buttons are not working, I'm getting weird color shifts in my image files on output and processing any image at all is taking seven to eight MINUTES. Ugh!! I check and see the GPU is not being utilized nearly as much with this version, often less than 5%, while the CPU is being hammered at +90%. Weird. Status = Sad. I do some research and find I'm not the only one complaining about these particular problems with these updates. I revert back to version 2.0 and all is well again: CPU ~60% utilization, GPU ~85% utilization and everything working as it should.</p><p></p><p>Then someone suggests a settings re-calibration ("Reset" button, found under File/Preferences) might make things right for me with 2.1.2 so I update, re-calibrate and... Lo and behold, the magic works! The calibration took a few seconds and suddenly 2.1.2 is tearing up noise in the largest raw files I could find quickly (91MB!) like a chainsaw through wet toilet-paper*. Faster even than vanilla 2.0 I'm thinking. Status = Joy!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]334995[/ATTACH]<p style="margin-left: 40px"><em>91MB raw files? No problem!</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 40px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 40px"><em></em></p><p>And I have to admit, while getting the most out of DeNoise has come with a bit of learning curve (at least for me) it's proving more valuable than I first thought it would. I used to think digital noise was purely related to high ISO but I've learned it's not so much an ISO issue as it is an overall exposure issue. So currently I'm going back through a lot of previous shoots and finding DeNoise is removing a lot more noise than I even realized was there to BE removed. Shots that I didn't really think suffered from being noisy often look significantly "cleaner", for lack of a better word, after being passed through DeNoise and with a retention of fine that is surprising and distinctly different than what I can achieve with Sharpening. Of course I've had to adjust my workflow, again, but <em>c'est la vie</em>, eh?</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ffffff">.....</span></p><p>*<em>No toilet-paper was harmed in the making of this post.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 730729, member: 13090"] [b]Topaz DeNoise AI: Color Me Converted[/b] Some days ago after having mused on this thread a bit I decided to revisit Topaz DeNoise AI and, after finding a discount code that brought the cost down to something I could swallow/not have the lovely and charming Mrs. Fish giving me dirty looks about, I bit the bullet and purchased a license. Installation goes smoothly and things are chugging along just fine. At this point I'm thinking version 2.0 is doing a pretty decent job, especially considering the size of the typical D850 raw file. Life is good. [B]*Time Passes*[/B] So now I'm a few days in to learning the ins-and-outs of DeNoise - while practicing proper social distancing and working from home - when a couple DeNoise updates come along (v2.1.1 and v2.1.2) and just like that everything goes sideways. Hard. Image previews are choppy and slow to refresh, some of the buttons are not working, I'm getting weird color shifts in my image files on output and processing any image at all is taking seven to eight MINUTES. Ugh!! I check and see the GPU is not being utilized nearly as much with this version, often less than 5%, while the CPU is being hammered at +90%. Weird. Status = Sad. I do some research and find I'm not the only one complaining about these particular problems with these updates. I revert back to version 2.0 and all is well again: CPU ~60% utilization, GPU ~85% utilization and everything working as it should. Then someone suggests a settings re-calibration ("Reset" button, found under File/Preferences) might make things right for me with 2.1.2 so I update, re-calibrate and... Lo and behold, the magic works! The calibration took a few seconds and suddenly 2.1.2 is tearing up noise in the largest raw files I could find quickly (91MB!) like a chainsaw through wet toilet-paper*. Faster even than vanilla 2.0 I'm thinking. Status = Joy! [ATTACH=CONFIG]334995._xfImport[/ATTACH][INDENT=2][I]91MB raw files? No problem! [/I][/INDENT] And I have to admit, while getting the most out of DeNoise has come with a bit of learning curve (at least for me) it's proving more valuable than I first thought it would. I used to think digital noise was purely related to high ISO but I've learned it's not so much an ISO issue as it is an overall exposure issue. So currently I'm going back through a lot of previous shoots and finding DeNoise is removing a lot more noise than I even realized was there to BE removed. Shots that I didn't really think suffered from being noisy often look significantly "cleaner", for lack of a better word, after being passed through DeNoise and with a retention of fine that is surprising and distinctly different than what I can achieve with Sharpening. Of course I've had to adjust my workflow, again, but [I]c'est la vie[/I], eh? [COLOR=#ffffff].....[/COLOR] *[I]No toilet-paper was harmed in the making of this post.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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