The latest and just-released AI offering from Topaz, DeNoise AI, tackles nasty noise issues in your digital photos as the first AI-powered noise reduction tool. The older your image, the more likely there is to be moderate-to-severe disturbance of clarity that needs to be addressed. It seems very possible that DeNoise AI is now going to be the best solution available for this purpose.
Here’s the DeNoise AI interface (initial version 1.0.0 release), very straightforward and immediately familiar to users of Topaz’s other AI products:
Note: For existing customers of the older plug-in, this DeNoise AI release is FREE (as are ALL of Topaz’s updates). For new users, you can save an initial $20 AND there is an unadvertised ADDITIONAL 15% discount on DeNoise AI as well as any other Topaz product (including the new AI Bundle!) by using our coupon code at checkout:
Back in October I posted about fighting gritty images with Topaz Clear AI and got some amazing results. Believe it or not, the new DeNoise AI is giving even better results on that noisiest-photo-I-have-ever-seen (provided by Judy Gilde)! Shot in RAW with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II a decade ago in 2009 at ISO 12,800, it’s a great example of having to push the limits of your camera to capture a difficult scene.
As a reminder, here is a reduced version of the full-frame image for reference:
The telephone pole at right fades into a pile of digital mush due to the lack of light on that side of the scene.
Here’s a 100% before-and-after comparison of the pole section of the image after being treated by DeNoise AI (pre-release version at that!) at default settings, with quick Levels and Hue/Saturation adjustments on the result:
Quite a salvage job! The pole (from top to bottom) now mostly stands out from the digital blizzard and the barely visible trees clearly pop against the sky.
Note: For existing customers of the older plug-in, this DeNoise AI release is FREE (as are ALL of Topaz’s updates). For new users, you can save an initial $20 AND there is an unadvertised ADDITIONAL 15% discount on DeNoise AI as well as any other Topaz product (including the new AI Bundle!) by using our coupon code at checkout.
I dug back through my own 15-year-old non-DSLR digital photos to find some rough examples to test. Here’s a photo related to the one above in that it’s also shot at night (large dark areas) with the Moon present. With custom settings applied, DeNoise AI strips away the grit and returns a much more usable result (final pre-release version shown here and below):
Night time is the right time for everything but taking photos, it seems! Here’s a handheld slow exposure of fireworks, where the dark areas (as usual) are full of unwanted junk. DeNoise AI restores the sky to its natural color while leaving the delicate puff of smoke alone:
And here is the Moon again (the same one!), this time out on the ocean before it got dark. As a result, less (but still some) noise is present in the original, yet DeNoise AI is still useful for making the sky smooth as silk:
DeNoise AI will of course continue to improve as Topaz releases subsequent updates. These are always free for existing customers.
Note: For existing customers of the older plug-in, this DeNoise AI release is FREE (as are ALL of Topaz’s updates). For new users, you can save an initial $20 AND there is an unadvertised ADDITIONAL 15% discount on DeNoise AI as well as any other Topaz product (including the new AI Bundle!) by using our coupon code at checkout.