Topaz denoise 6 changes from 5 software#

It was taken with a Z6 200-500 mm lens at f/5.6, 1/1600 sec, ISO 8000 which produced the photo on the left, unprocessed without any CR (camera raw) adjustments. Here is a summary of what I've found evaluating the two products. I'll continue to evaluate the two packages, but just wondering if anyone else if seeing what I see as the differences between the two products? Photo in, photo out with out much effort on the part of the photographer. It seems to be a fully automated product. But then the DXO product doesn't seem to allow any changes in strength of the effects it creates. The sharpening seemed to be a little less harsh as well. The DXO product lacked any artifacts that were visible at 500%. When I pixel peeped at 500% the detail that I was seeing at 100% seemed to be made up from created artifacts in the files. Now when I came to compare these two packages side by side, I noticed that Topaz seemed to keep just a tad more detail in the images.

These two packages both did better than anything I was able to do on my own.

Topaz denoise 6 changes from 5 software#

Well, having taken three photos that I did a lot of work on and running them through the default settings of the above two software packages (demo versions), I'm now convinced that I can't.

I've always considered that I could get the noise out of my photos and sharpen them better than any automated software. I've been evaluating Topaz DeNoise AI and Topaz Sharpen vs the new release of DXO Pure Raw vs my photos.