Hi, I take the latest postings about denoise issues as an opportunity to ask a few questions.
I am a long term DT user. I have spend hours creating my own denoise profiles with several instances of profiled denoise in wavelet and local means. But when comparing with rawtherapee or lightroom I have the impression that DT is lagging behind. Every once in a while I do a RAW development competion with a friend. He is using lightroom, I am using DT. When we compare the resulting JPGs, Lightroom frequently beats DT in the denoise area. And the same is true for rawtherapee. Denoise is the biggest weakness of DT from my point of view. It might be a personal issue. May be I just do not know how to do it right. But that is my next point. The denoise functionality in DT is just too complex from a user point of view. It has denoise bilateral, denoise non-local means, profiled denoise, raw denoise and equalizer denoise (do I miss something?), And any combination of all of them. This is just too much from my point of view. Who actually needs this multitude of denoise functions? And who knows exactly what to do with them or how to combine them? Does DT really need that many denoise functions? I would appreciate just one module with a handful of slideers doing the job. Look at Lightroom. By the way, is it possible to adapt the denoise code from rawtherapee? I would really appreciate if this posting helps to start a serious discussion about denoise in DT. Thanks Matthias ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
