I’m new to Topaz Denoise. It’s an amazing product, which I cannot stress enough! However, there are some behaviors that I don’t understand. Maybe these are caused because I’m still on the trial version. Is that different from the fully licensed version?
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When opened from within Lightroom, Topaz Denoise shows different menu options than if it is opened stand-alone. For example, “Save As” is missing. Also, naming preferences previously specified in the stand-alone version (add prefix/suffix) are not available and not applied.
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Topaz Denoise messes up my exif Exposure Bias. If I have a RAW (CR2) file with 1/2 EV, Topaz Denoise changes it to 1073741823/2147483647 EV in the output TIF file’s exif.
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When Topaz Denoise is opened from within Windows Explorer, by right-clicking a RAW file (CR2 or ARW) and selecting “Open With”, it tries to save the output file with its original RAW name. When I inspect the original RAW file’s properties, nothing seems to have changed (luckily). I am unable to locate any other version of the RAW file with a 'Date Modified" that is different from the original. It seems that Topaz Denoise actually didn’t do anything.
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I read somewhere that Topaz Denoise creates artifacts. After carefully inspecting a before and after image I now think that it simply makes artifacts more visible by denoising and sharpening. It would be great if an artifact-search-and-repair could be built in, somewhere in the future.
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Maybe some of the above are explained in the User Guide. However, I cannot locate it. Can someone point me the way?