DeNoise 2.2.10 and Sharpen 2.1.6 are both built, but will be released tomorrow morning. We want to be able to monitor if anything like this happens again so we don’t want to release it when we’re all asleep. Sorry for the slight delay.
Another update, we have spent a lot of today testing for things in the upcoming release and found several things that needed fixing before I was comfortable with releasing. Final build is going as I write this, but we implemented a cut-off time for releases recently so we may have to again push it to tomorrow morning.
For a sneak peak, here’s the upcoming changelog at the moment. If you have any of these issues I’m hoping they are fully resolved in the next release.
Fixed issue where dragging the navigator/preview to the right side would crash
Fixed an issue where Photoshop last filter settings were not saved between invocations
Fixed a potential crash using auto mode
Fixed in-app update downloads not running due to bad paths caused by usernames with non-ASCII characters
Fixed erroneously loading files with unsupported colorspaces
Mainly, Apple Wide Color Sharing Profile is explicitly not supported when coming in from Photoshop.
Fixed update button not enabling in certain cases when masking
Fixed a crash in masking
Fixed a case where using auto could append the wrong model suffix
Fixed scroll bar in the file list getting too small with large amounts of images
Fixed certain runtime dlls not being included
Changed right panel so it never hides itself
Updated installer framework which should hopefully resolve some online installer issues
keep in mind that you have to turn off Sharpening and Denoise in LR, because every time when you came back from any other software into LR it will sharpen.
The first image looks like sharpen two or three times before denoise.
I would work first on the image itself and when you’re ready you denoise it as the final step.
Even though I don’t work in Lr (I’m a Ps person…) whenever I open raw images in Adobe Camera Raw (Ps implementation) to process them there b4 doing my ‘creative’ Ps processing I always turn all sharpening and denoising functions off in ACR (that would be roughly equivalent to your Lr processes I think). If you don’t do that, it’s true you could be double and triple sharpening and denoising. That will produce the kinds of artifacts (speckling) you’re seeing in your hummie image.
Lr may be different in how it works so take this with my Ps user proviso … After I do basic processing (with sharpening & denoising set to none) in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) I launch my images into Ps for all other processing. The 1st thing I do there is a denoise. Then follow that with a very basic (not final output level) edge or image capture sharpening. Then I do all my creative machinations. Output sharpen. Then (most often selectively) denoise portions of the image that might need it (masking or painting on selectively). The goal of the selective denoising is to not soften and/or lose dimension all my previous steps created.
I’ll defer to Thomas if Lr is a very different animal in terms of processing. I don’t use it at all so can only speak to Ps processes…
BTW… on your sample image, was it your goal to make it heavily yellow-hue skewed? And downplay the midtones for a bleached look?