Anyone else finds Denoise AI is horrible?

[mastix]

Denoise Demystified | Adobe Blog

I read all the article about the new Denoise tool. And seeing the examples I am truly horrified how bad the results are compared to the manual denoise. Again the terrible plastic unreal look that so many people like.

It reminds me of the time of those HDR programs that did all those garish overcooked unnatural over saturated High dynamic images that so many amateur photographers were raving about and were truly ugly. Same with interpolation. Other programs churn out very bad results that people cheer about. In this case I think the 4x interpolation of Adobe at least is natural and much much better than the other AI competition.

Now again with denoise following other programs that have the same bad results that now Adobe mimics. Those plastic bark trees looks like trees from Jupiter or Mars (if there were trees there) but not from planet earth

Rant over. The important thing is that Adobe maintains the manual controls for those of us that want natural organic results.

[mastix]

Thank you. Indeed the sample you have posted the image on the left has better detail than the one on the right. And no plastic look at all. Thank you for that sample.

[D Fosse]

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I always take these demos with a big bucket of salt. I wouldn't dream of making final judgements before trying it out for myself. Like the others here, I think Denoise is spectacularly good - but even so I use it very sparingly. Thus far I have sent out perhaps two or three final images with Denoise applied, out of many hundred.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

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