![]() ![]() If I had any criticism of Neat Image, it would be that I could not remove the little artifacts it leaves behind. The shocker is that the Neat Image is almost identical: Neat Image took less than 10 seconds to complete its job while Topaz took the usual 6 minutes or so. When you see the crops, you will be able to line them up with the scene near the middle of this image: This is downsized only, no noise reduction at all. I processed the other copy with Topaz Denoise 2.1 under the same conditions.įirst, here is the frame from which I took the crops. I took rather small crops from the middle of the frame and then processed one copy with Neat Image 6 in 16-bit mode in Adobe RGB color space. I used the D300 and 18-200VR, which resolves a lot of detail for a consumer mega-zoom. So I was forced to shoot at 2500 ISO to get decent shutter speeds. The Globe is all wooden beams and thatch, and the lighting is subdued. This was a night performance and I had floor tickets (best value for 5 pounds in the Universe in my opinion.) This image was shot this spring at the Globe Theater in London, sometime during a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream. I chose an image that I had done with Topaz Denoise in the past and that had blown me away with its ability to handle difficult shadow detail. My initial tests with Neat Image were startlingly good, so I knew that I had to look at them pretty closely. That means that it is time to test these two against each other to see who will be my "go-to" tool. An impressive piece of work.īut Neat Image, my favourite general purpose noise reduction tool, has released version 6, a major upgrade. ![]() I've been using Topaz Denoise for some of the trickier noise reduction tasks lately, as it does a wonderful job of smoothing surfaces while leaving very small details intact.
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