On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > > Quoting Bruce Walker <[email protected]>: > >> I recommend you to download the demo of that and a couple of others, >> eg Imagenomic Noiseware, and test on your material for yourself. I >> have three NR packages that I use now: Lightroom (ACR), Imagenomic >> Noiseware, and Nik Dfine. They all act differently on different kinds >> of noise, so I pick and choose depending. >> >> I don't have experience with Topaz other than running its demo back >> when I chose Noiseware. I didn't like its UI then. >> >> Personally, I'd recommend you to save up for the Nik Suite. It's $149 >> but it's a killer bunch of plugins and if you use the RAW Sharpener >> before applying the NR (Dfine) you avoid much of the softening that NR >> usually creates. > > > > > Red face time...
Never mind: I just saved you forty bucks. :-) > I already have the Nik Suite but I use it almost exclusively for the Silver > Efex component - never even realised that Define was a NR component.... The recommended workflow is apply RAW pre-sharpener (tick the High ISO selector if above ISO 400 so it avoids oversharpening noise), then run Dfine on the result. Sometimes the Dfine automatic noise detect fails and you have to manually point it at 4-5 different sample areas. Maybe once in 100 images. > I'll probably still download the Topaz software to compare it with Define. Nik Dfine is so good that I'd just not bother with Topaz myself. It seems to handle sensor banding in extremely high-ISO shots really well. Those ones where it was the "set it to 512,000 or miss the shot" sort of thing. It can't perform miracles, but it pulls a perfectly useable image out of the mud. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
