I have been running Deep Prime on some images that I had already processed in DeNoise. The former does better on images that have a large amount of colour noise especially on blacks. But some images can also look over-processed/over-saturated. There are no sliders to adjust the result, so I found I was having to do some post-processing back in On1 Photo Raw.
In Photolab, you can use the Color Accentuation sliders to adjust the saturation & vibrancy.
You can also change the Color Rendering setting, from Generic Rendering to your prefer camera body, which will give much better & nature result.
I use DeepPRIME for all my high ISO RAW file, however it donât work with JPG, so I still need DeNoise AI for JPG.
At the moment, I am looking forward to see how the coming âON1 NoNoise AI 2021â compare to DeepPRIME & DeNoise AI.
I am using DxO Pure Raw only (on trial), not PhotoLab. If I send a file from On1, I can only send it as the original raw or as a TIF copy.If the original image is underexposed, the result look horrible when itâs back in On1 with exposure adjusted accordingly.
I have done some further comparisons. DxO Pure Raw is much better on colour noise, but it cannot handle skies that are bleached in the original Raw file
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Never mind the rest of the shot. In each case I pulled down exposure back in On1 Photo Raw. The DxO image is in the centre and there is no cloud detail whatsoever.
If you are sending the file from DXO Pure Raw as a DNG, then this isnât a raw file it is a linear DNG (like LR produces when you make a pano or HDR) essentially a Tif in a DNG container.
Thatâs why DXO-Photolab gives better results than Pure Raw. You can raise shadows to expose noise, reduce highlights etc and then DeepPrime takes care of the noise in the exported linear DNG.
Thatâs what I am discovering now that I have downloaded a 30-day trial of Photo Lab. The result on low light high ISO images is way better than DeNoise I am sad to say, since colour noise removal is much better.
By the time the trial is over, On1 will have its new denoise module out, so the competition is hotting up.
Interesting. The DeepPrime (as well as Prime) clearly eats fine feather detail in my bird images, and I never encountered such losses via ACR development. To me it is much easier to fine-tune ACR output and suppress noise retaining all the detail (and increase sharpness ad hoc) with Topaz apps than to play with SAI over the DNG obtained from PhotoLab with DeepPrime.
It probably must be a really bad noise to make me using DeepPrime, and I did not have such an example to date.
I am currently working through some cityscapes and landscapes that I had previously denoised with Topaz DeNoise AI. I have to say that DxO, on the whole does a better job. Thatâs Photo Lab, not Deep Prime. For non Lightroom users Deep Prime is not satisfactory, since it works on the original raw file that may or may not be underexposed. In Photo Lab, itâs possible, with one click, to adjust exposure before using the Deep Prime module. Where Topaz DN AI falls down is on colour noise reduction, so that I find, for example, grey cobblestones turn out all smeary with magenta and cyan.
In due course, Iâll be looking at some wildlife photos, where itâs reported Deep Prime canât handle detail such as feathers.
Meanwhile, I anxiously await On1â s contribution.
By the way, whatâs ACR?