

This is where DeNoise shines, as it cleans up the image but also retains detail! If in particular you look at the hair in the above image, you can see how DeNoise AI takes the lead. You can see that although Capture One does an acceptable job of reducing noise in the image, there is some softness introduced. Obviously we can all use various noise reduction value combinations in our favourite editing software, but this was the best I could get with C1. You can see in the first image analysis that even at 6400, DeNoise AI does an amazing job of cleaning everything up compared to Capture One. I have observed that with the noise reduction being applied to some images above 6400 ISO on my Canon R5, the results feel slightly less amazing, but still very good and the best out there. However until they do, I have found that DeNoise AI wipes the floor with anything else I have looked at! Noise reduced image resultsīelow are some recent image examples at different ISOs. Yes it could be another fad if Photoshop, C1 or Lightroom suddenly up their game. Did I really need to buy some software? Was it just another short lived fad? Initially I was pretty sceptical of using a noise reduction plugin again as cameras have moved on a lot and image editors such as Adobe Lightroom and Capture One have their own noise reduction tools built in which are already pretty good. I’m not convinced that AI is the answer to everything, at least not yet. Scepticismįirstly, I’m getting a bit tired of hearing how everything has AI these days, it seems such a gimmick now and just an excuse to shift products. In the same way, you can also access DeNoise AI in Photoshop, or you can use it as a standalone program. One or both of them could be used as a plugin in Photoshop.

In the past I have tried Neat Image and Noise Ninja and I think at the time they were pretty good. It had popped into my mind as I had watched a really good video about the software (more on that later). I have recently purchased a Canon R5 mirrorless camera body and after finding the noise wasn’t really any better than my old Canon 5D Mark III, I started to think about noise reduction software. Recently I have been trying out DeNoise AI by Topaz Labs. Is it worth buying image noise reduction software in 2020?
