Dxo Pureraw Lightroom Plugin
Yazmín Bohon
Matt,
one of the things that drives me crazy, is when I select subject in lightroom, after making general adjustments to the picture, the bird is much darker and not the same as it was when i did general adjustments. What am i doing wrong. I hoped it would be the same as it was in general adjustments and I could further refine it. thanks, hugh
Matt I just watched a tutorial that Photo Joseph did on the new DxO Raw. It was amazing. It not only sharpened your raw file but also took care of noise..I use the NIK Collection to help with post processing and also have some Topaz programs. I really liked this new DxO Raw though.
Just a heads up Matt
I just downloaded Topaz Sharpen & Denoise as a package but during the checkout there was no place to enter the discount code so I ended up paying full price. A little bummed out. You might warn others viewers of this.
As soon as I saw the title of your video, I knew you were going to talk about Topaz Denoise and Sharpen. I do wildlife and landscape/nature photography and their products have recovered many photos I thought were discards.
Hi Matt,
have you already tested DXO photolab 4 deep prime noise reduction ?
it is listed in some comments below BUT I just received an advertisement
for a brand new DXO Pure raw (89 euros) with, if i understand, a xmp collaboration
with lightroom.
no idea how it interfaces with photolab4 and U-points, dng+xmp , before coming back
to Lightroom or makes a TIF I dislike.
I updated my old NIK collection to V3.3 (non destructive in lightroom for one plugin) and considered DXO photolab 4 at same time because I had some nostalgy of the U-points I used in the past in capture NX2.
Thank you very much for this comparison and remarks about the new dxo workflow.
Very useful.
DXO makes so many advertisements having the best lens correction, perspective correction (viewpoint), noise reduction and now raw processing that it is always difficult to know if it is true or not.
Same remark for your show with Scott Kelby and Serge Ramelli about capture one vs Lightroom. very useful.
Thanks Matt! Good info! The technology moves so fast today. I got my first IBM compatible computer at work I think about 1984. 640K of RAM and a 10mb hard drive with a color monitor and I loved it. It was perfect for Lotus 123. We have come a long way! More to come!
Contact Topaz customer support. I had the same problem with Topaz Mask AI last year. There was a bug that showed up in very few PCs, and mine was one of them. They refunded my purchase price and suggested I give it another try when the next update was published. I did, and it works fine now. Good luck!
I would like to know how you got that fantastic support you write about. I paid for everything twice and I only get a trial use of sharpening and no use of denoise Ai. The trial use of Sharpen Ai is of no use because it leaves a watermark over most of the photo. I have written several emails to their help address and have gotten no answers. I would like a phone number so that I can address the issues that I have. The whole bundle appears on photoshop 2021, but does not work. Can someone help me with this?
Not sure why you are having this problem. Have you tried logging into your account at the Topaz website? From there click on My Products and you can see what you have purchased and can download again if you need to. With the older legacy plugin programs you needed to enter a license key to activate them but you now just enter your Topaz login credentials and the program is unlocked.
I would like to know how you got that fantastic support you write about. I paid for everything twice and I only get a trial use of sharpening and no use of denoise Ai. The trial use of Sharpen Ai is of no use because it leaves a watermark over most of the photo. I have written several emails to their helpaddress and have gotten no answers. I would like a phone number so that I can address the issues that I have. The whole bundle appears on photoshop 2021, but does not work. Can someone help me with this?
Hi Matt,
Happy you finally joined topaz fan club ?
Noise and sharpening Improvements are more obvious when you use a d750 insteda of a sony alpha 1 ?
i am now using sharpen ai for foliage in IR photography. I am using a d5600 full spectrum with external lifepixel filters and focus in IR of a dslr is not easy.
I try to do as much as possible in LR before going to PS. It is clear that Both products work on exported files not raw. I would expect the basic panel to be used as before. However, texture, clarity and dehaze might interfere with the Topaz process. How much actual sharpening and noise reduction would you apply in LR, if any? I was not impressed with the available documentation as in NONE. So where is the jump off point from LR
I am an ON1 user and thus have to use Topaz products as a stand alone. My question is when do you use the Topaz products in you workflow for print use? Do you use Topaz on the RAW file and then edit a TIFF version of the photo (as that is the best save option with Topaz) or do you edit the raw first and save it as as a TIFF and then use Topaz?
YAY! Always love to see someone apologise when they admit they are wrong. I have been using Topaz for a long time and how they have improved Sharpening and De-Noise to what it is now is amazing. I always go straight to Topaz now for either of those editing changes and by-pass PS.
I recognize your experiences here. I have been a long time user of both Topaz DeNoise AI and Topaz Sharpen AI and I really like both of these programs. But working at my older images from years back with my Nikon D80 I preferred the denoising at the RAW level that only DxO PhotoLab 4.0 offers.
hello Timothy,
I am happy you could update your plugins for free but I am surprised.
topaz studio updates and legacy amazing plugins are free updates but you need to
pay 99usd per year for the whole AI collection updates and another 130 usd for video enhance AI.
I started using Denoise about 6 months ago on high ISO images, do you recommend using it on all images even ISO 800 and below? Also, in your workflow when do you use these apply the denoise and/or sharping?
Thanks for your video! I have been using several of these Topaz tools for a couple of months now and I am very consistently surprised by the job they do in sharpening and removing noise in my wildlife photos. They are a regular part of my workflow for many of my photos especially those involving wildlife movement. I am a long time follower of yours, have purchased many of your courses, and look forward to checking out your wildlife editing tutorial when it is released.
I have been using Sharpen and DeNoise since they first came out and have seen the improvement in the technology. That being said, Topaz now requires an annual renewal fee of $49 per program or $99 for all your Topaz software in order to continue with updates. In my opinion, you need to use this software quite a bit to justify that annual cost.
I do pay the subscription cost for LR and PS, but I use these programs for all my photos as well as cataloging. I just want people to be aware of this as they begin using this software.
Thank you Bob for letting us know of the annual membership Topaz requires. My annual processing cost would double after paying for LR/PS and now to include Topaz. Unfortunately, this would be a hard pill to swallow when including all the other photography subscriptions that I am paying for besides LR/PS.
I have purchased Topaz AI as it seems that I have tried it before and used the free trial time. I have used it via PS. It took my CPU to 100% and its temperature to 101 deg C. It is an i7 intel processor running at 5.0GB with 64GB RAM. It took just under 5 minutes to render and locked up PS until it finished.
I will try again tomorrow using it as a standalone and then from Lightroom but I feel that I shall be asking for a refund. No program should cook my PC.
I have a quite old computer (I built it in 2011), with a six core processor. Like you, Sharpen AI and DeNoise AI brought my box to its knees. I replaced my old video card with a mid-range NVIDIA card and recovered much of the lost performance running those two apps.
Very good video, Matt. I have both of the Topaz products you use here, but also purchased DXO Photolab 4 because I found DeepPrime slightly better than Denoise AI on some images. DXO also seems to produce fewer weird artifacts. The disadvantage of DXO is that it only runs Prime and DeepPrime on RAW files. Topaz works on several file types.
It will be interesting to see a comparison between Topaz Denoise and the stand-alone DXO PureRaw that was just released a couple of days ago. I have tried DXO PureRaw with Lightroom Classic and was very easy to integrate into my normal workflow. You can batch process RAW files in PureRaw first and then automatically export them over to LR/PS before you start your editing as normal.
Matt I always enjoy your videos and presentation style. I commend you for your willingness to try the plug ins and your honest evaluation. I use Topaz DeNoise and Sharpen frequently for my wildlife shots.
I love Topaz Sharpening AI as well.
It also does some NR so sometimes I just use the sharpening to do both and vice versa.
And yes, the sharpening is better than the built-in LR/PS as well. So is the Gigapixel AI as tested by some on YouTube in comparison to Photoshops new Enhance.
Very convincing testimonial Matt. I heard you say that Sharpen AI appears to have noise reduction built in BUT, if I were to need to use both plug-ins (Sharpen and Denoise) on the same image, which plug-in should I use first? Thanks for all your contributions to my photo education!
MFT photographers shooting RAW should take a test run with the new app from DxO -- DxO PureRAW. It automatically produces a DNG with lens correction and noise elimination ready for your favorite software (or a JPG, if you prefer).
I have found it didn't create a good image for the E-M1III-Oly 8mm f1.8 fisheye combination, but tests with other primes on 2 different MFT cameras resulted in excellent results.
Has anyone else here tested DxO PureRAW?
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