Hi, I did a denoise comparison of darktable (DT) with rawtherapee (RT) and lightroom (LR) because my photos shoot with ISO 1600 are very noisy and I found no way for a satisfying result.
The following link contains the original raw file of the test photo and all screenshots https://www.dropbox.com/sh/92na8uggpjf6649/3BbwRqLvwk First comparing without any special work applied on it - DT without anything.png looks colorless and the expected noise - RT without anything.png looks more colorful and also with the expected noise - LT without anything.png looks colorful and with same denoise Too bring back the color into darktable the base curve have to be applied - DT with base curve and sharpen.png colorful but with very visible noise Next with denoise applied - DT-with base curve, sharpen and denoise profiled (wavelets 0.35).png with denoise profiled (setting wavelets and strengh 0.35) it reduce the noise but same color pixels are left and also the texture of the dress are lost - RT with denoise and sharpen.png with more color denoise setting dose rawtherapee a good job, there is only luminance nose left which is hardly visible in zoomed out photo also the texture is not destroyed - LR denoise and sharpen.png with only color denoise almost all noise is reduced only a very fine luminance nose is left LR does the best job! I tried same more DT settings, see below the best a found - DT with base curve, sharpen and denoise profiled (wavelets 0.3 HSV-Color and none local means 0.45 HSV-luminance).png with twice denoise profiled applied the result is better but not as good as in RT and LR - DT with base curve, sharpen and denoise (non local means - 35,50,100).png also better but not as good as in RT and LR Conclusion: I can not find any setting in DT which can compete with RT and LR. If there is a setting for a better result let me know it I would appreciate it. Best regards, Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
