I’m working on a jpg scanned old color 35mm slide (Ektachrome, probably) that has a lot of very obvious grain all over the sky. Photo AI wasn’t doing a great job cleaning up the grain, so I tried DeNoise AI. It worked far better, and quickly to!
Normally I just use Photo AI, on the assumption that you folks would be incorporating Sharpen, DeNoise and GigaPixel into it, but hmm… what’s going on here? Was I mistaken? Are the old single-function tools really still better?
My copies of PhotoAI and Denoise AI are both fully current.
Steps to reproduce issue:
Open the jpg with either app and apply the denoise function in Strong mode
Yes, I think PhotoAI has fallen off a bit in this regard. Denoise AI seems to work much better on color noise than Photo AI. Nonetheless for many of my high ISO images, I use a selective workflow, often applying multiple iterations of NR to the background and different settings to the subject(s). At times, it still fails, and I frequently have to use Denoise AI for those circumstances.
Wow, I’m not seeing that. I own DeNoise AI, and have just tested Photo AI3 (which I don’t own), and the PREVIEW image from photo AI3 blows away whatever DeNoise can do. Maybe the actual output (which I can’t generate) is different, but it doesn’t look like it would be a close comparison - it looks like Photo AI image was shot at ISO 200, and the DeNoise image was shot at 3200.