![]() The Horsehead Nebula before and after images above demonstrate at a glance the difference that Denoise AI can make in an image. Bottom line is that I’m pretty impressed by what it can do for my images. Denoise AI had been getting a fair amount of exposure lately (including by Trevor Jones on his AstroBackyard blog) so I thought I’d give it a try when it went on sale over the Christmas holiday season. Applying more than modest amounts of noise reduction using these tools often results in unwanted degradation of image quality. I’ve already explained in my other posts how these artificial intelligence or machine learning products. Subscribe to see EXIF info for this image. Blended only the bird into the underlying image. Cropped and sent a blended layer to Topaz Sharpen AI. Two curves layers: one to brighten the bottom, the other to darken the top. Opened dng in Adobe Camera Raw for exposure tweaks. ![]() But the focus of ‘Denoise AI’ is noise reduction. Started in Topaz DeNoise Raw, saved as dng. It’s possibly my most used Topaz Plug-in, and I often even prefer it over Sharpen AI for sharpening too. While Photoshop and (my image processing package of choice) Affinity Photo both include noise reduction tools, they are only modestly effective when astro images contain a lot of noise (a common problem for astro image processing). In my series of Topaz Labs product reviews, next up is Topaz ‘Denoise AI’. One tool I recently added to the toolbox is Denoise AI from Topaz Labs.Ĭloseup of my Horsehead Nebula image, original on the left, after applying Denoise AI on the right. So I’m always on the lookout for tools that can help me improve my images. Post-processing astro images is probably one of the most challenging parts of the astro imaging process.
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