Topaz Photo AI vs. Topaz Denoise AI vs. Luminar Noiseless AI

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• December 06, 2022 15:21
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Little comparison between Topaz Photo AI, Topaz Denoise AI and Luminar Noiseless AI on a landscape/architecture image at night.

Source material: 
Canon CR2-RAW, 100% crop, no sharpening, only standard denoising. To be able to see the dark areas better, the shadows were pulled up completely.

 

First denoising with Luminar NEO Noiseless AI lowest level.

No colorshift. Relatively natural denoising. Residual noise still present, well seen in the water reflection. but the details all preserved. Overall quite natural result.

 

Here is the result with TPAI 1.1.0.

Not much to say here, the image has become completely unusable. In the dark areas all details are completely gone. Only gray area.

And here the result of Topaz Denois AI.

As you can see very well, there is a colorshift. That's not nice, you have to compensate it in the RAW converter. In the water surface partly complete loss of detail. Overall very unnatural and artificial looking. Result better than TPAI, but clearly worse than Noiseless AI from Luminar NEO.

Conclusion:
I like the image with Noiseless AI the best. It has the most natural look with good denoising. Unfortunately, such a result is not always the case. There are many examples where Topaz performs worlds better and Noiselesse fails. Well, that's just the way it is. There is no software that can do everything.

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  • December 06, 2022 22:11

  And here is the same image first developed in NEO, then exported as a TIFF, and then denoised in TPAI.

  Conclusion:

  The denoising result here is the best of all. Significantly more denoised than the variant with Noiseless AI.

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  John West

  • December 11, 2022 01:05

  Very interesting, If you have access to Digital Camera Magazine December 2022 (sometimes available through your library) you can download 'Denoise Projects 2" with an activation code for free, both for Windows and Mac.

  I did this yesterday and was quiet impressed with the result on an otherwise unusable image.

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  • December 11, 2022 11:08

  Hi John,

  Thanks for the info. I know the products from Franzis Verlag. What bothers me about it, however, is that Franzis earns its nose with every product. Everything is sold individually. That is quite a rip-off in my eyes. Otherwise, some of the products are not bad. There is already version 4 of Denoise, but I think it is important that the software runs natively on Apple Silicon. On the homepage, there are only system requirements for Windows, none for Mac.

  I usually use either Noiseless AI from Luminar, or Denoise AI from Topaz or Topaz Photo AI to denoise my images. With the latter, the denoising mode for RAWs has now been improved, so that there is no more loss of detail, as I had pointed out above.

  LG, Dutchman

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  John West

  • December 12, 2022 02:13

  Hi and thanks for the reply. The Ver. 4 will not run on a Mac only Ver. 3 at the moment. I was going to include the original RAW file but limited to jpeg's.

  Just wanted to put the information out there in case someone wanted some free software.

  Cheers

   

   

   

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