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Noise reduction and Sharpening help needed.

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
January 9, 2023
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I'm having problems with the following photo. It was taken with f/6.3 and ISO 25000.

All of my efforts cannot seem to balance the Noise Reduction and Sharpening.

Adobe has not reviewed it yet, however, other site have kicked it back with either "Focus" or "Noise/Artifact" issues.

I think it looks fine. What do you see?

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RALPH_LAuthor

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This one got excepted.

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Abambo

Community Expert

Congratulations, even that the black in the eye could be blacker… and the noise reduction did eat-up a lot of detail contrast. But it's an impressive image. It looks like your last image, before getting eaten… 😄

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Jill_C

Community Expert

It seems unlikely that any software product is going to make an image with such a high ISO acceptable. If you zoom in you will see that the fur has lost detail and looks like brushstrokes rather than individual hairs.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

RALPH_LAuthor

Community Expert

Hi @Jill_C , Trying oit a third party AI software. What do you think about this:

Left is original right is noise reduction plus sharpening.

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RALPH_LAuthor

Community Expert

The software is Photo AI from Topaz Labs. Kinda expensive at 199€. The demo is without "save" possibilities. I'll have to see if the software produces artifacts. That is a problem with LRC when sharpening.

@Abambo , I'll check out PureRAW tommorrow. Thanks.

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tiger622010

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interesting view. from my experiece the ISO 25000 is too high. I never exceed over 800 for my stock images.

RALPH_LAuthor

Community Expert

I agree. Unfortunately, I sometimes have no say in the matter. Lighting conditions, focal length and shutter speed require the high ISO. Usually, I can balance it out. But not always.

By the way, here is the original.

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