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[PKM-UK]

Have a good trip! I have read several comments from that video. If you have a couple of settings like the sharpening set to the default it will likely will not affect anything. It's when you have 30 with masks, etc. Makes sense. I have a pre Denoise preset that puts everything to zero and unchecks lens corrections and CA. I have another that adds everything back. Only takes seconds.
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Hi Only RF,

Your Preset idea sounds interesting - I’ll certainly give that a go too.

In the meantime, we look forward to a traditional English drenching…

Phil and Karen

 

[koenkooi]

I’m still doing tests - terrific results being produced by the way - but I am also pondering whether making any adjustments before/after makes a tangible difference. It’s like any adjustments are ‘put aside’ while denoise is used on the raw, then they are re-applied to the resultant DNG (so noise isn’t exacerbated). It may be one difference is the time taken for processing.[...]

I suspect it's done to discourage people from tweaking things like sharpening and texture. The results from those will be very different when there's no noise.

 

[Only RF]

A bug report was submitted and some may be interested in the reply.

Opening Denoise

Adobe recomends to Denoise early in the process. One method is to press the Reset which clears everything, however sharpening defaults to 40. This does carry over to Denoise. No one is really sure if Denoise is supposed to ignore it but you can see it. I've set it to 150 just to test it and it...

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[Only RF]

More info from this thread. Check out the responses from this post.

I guess I'm not done yet. Sorry. So is this still a bug? The algorithms may not be applying sharpening during the process but different levels look different in the Enhance window. How are we supposed to judge how much NR to apply? For now I think I will zero everything out so I can see the state of the unsharpened file.

Re: Opening Denoise

Nothing. It's probably an oversight. They did set any manual noise reduction settings to zero, and forgot/did not realise that sharpening also has an effect that is not the same. That is why I suggest to create a 'zero all' preset and use that. 'Reset' does not zero out everything, but sets it...

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[Only RF]

Just to sum this up. Even though sharpening is not applied to the DNG until after NR is processed it is still deceiving. A ISO 16000 file. First example shows the file in Denoise with 0 sharpening. The second shows sharpening at 50. The 3rd shows the file that went to Denoise with 0 sharpening, it came back to LrC and I set sharpening to 50. You can see it looks cleaner. If I had used the sharpened file I would have likely pushed the Denoise amount slider further than it would have needed.

 

[Only RF]

Kind of flogging a dead horse but I was just watching some videos for more info and came across this. Minute 3:10. He also says to set sharpening to 0.

New LIGHTROOM AI DENOISE - But Is It Any Good?

New LIGHTROOM AI DENOISE - But Is It Any Good?In this video I walk you through the brand new feature inside of Lightroom 12.3 called AI Denoise. But is it an...

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[Only RF]

No sure if this will be helpful but you never know. I didn't know about it. @ 0:30 seconds.

Top 7 NEW UPDATES for Lightroom Classic 12.3 + Lightroom CC 6.3

Discover the Top 7 NEW UPDATES for Lightroom Classic 12.3 + Lightroom CC 6.3. Plus, I reveal a hidden feature of one of the new updates. It's going to blow y...

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