![]() ![]() Generally, I'll only do a lot of work on the "best" including use of Topaz. In LR I'll sort photos into good - better - best. For instance, not all my lenses need Sharpen AI. ![]() So, you need to make decisions based on the camera ISO, resultant noise, and lens. According to the Topaz technical support that I have discussed this with, the sharpening in DeNoise AI is different from Sharpen AI, and the denoise routine in Sharpen AI is different from Denoise AI. I have run many photos through both Topaz Denoise AI and Sharpen AI. There can be a lot of subtle detail that is very photo dependent and camera sensor sensitive. This can be a complex question, but I'll give you my simple answer. Moreover, the RAW images are only little 20Mp items from a Lumix FZ1000 or 12Mb from an Olympus TG6. PS Processing power is not too much of an issue, with a fat GPU and CPU eager for work within the Windows PC. What do you Topaz/LR users prefer as a workflow and why?Īny advice and further insights/corrections to improve my understanding will be welcome. followed by a final export into an 8-bit jpeg for general use, sharing, sending to others and so forth. On the other hand, I generally do export LR-edited RAW files as PSDs for any final tweaks in Photoshop. Using Topaz products as plug-ins within LR would be more convenient - but at the cost of losing the RAW file, if the Topaz results (along with any LR edits) can only be exported/used as a TIFF or PSD file. If I have this right, would it therefore be best to use Topaz first, on my from-camera RAW files, as a stand-alone noise-reduction "editor", followed by procesing in Lightroom on the resultant DNG file to do the usual things I might do to a RAW file in Lightroom to improve the photo? As I understand it, doing noise reduction as a first step will give a better quality (DNG) file for LR edits, which edits will have a greatly reduced tendency to exagerate noise, since noise will have already been eliminated or reduced.? There's already a thread for this but it seems to be discussing the Topaz noise reduction software used as a plug-in rather than as a stand-alone product.Īm I right, though, in thinking that use of the Topaz products as plug-ins to LR means that any original RAW file must be exported as a TIFF or other non-RAW file format following processing by the Topaz plug-in? The alternative seems to be to use a Topaz product as a stand-alone editor first, which can then have a DNG file as the export following the noise reduction (or whatever else Topaz processing does). ![]()
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