Here you can test both programs for free and buy them at the Black-Friday special price (valid as long as, affiliate links): Topaz: www.topazlabs.com/black-friday/ref/901/ DXO PureRaw: tidd.ly/3OwB01k
Can Fabian or someone else please let me know the species of bird at 7:00 (after the Elephant image)? I have some similar shots from Masai Mara and trying to confirm. Thank you.
Topaz works nicely into my workflow with Lightroom. I mainly shoot birds so almost all of my photos are cropped. I import, crop, denoise and then edit. The crop before denoise means that I only denoise the smaller file so it's faster that way. Noise reduction has to be performed before editing otherwise your sliders are going to be enhancing the noise.
Thanks for your comment 😊 I still prefer to do rough adjustments before denoising, to me the result looked better (in terms of colors, as shown in the other video)
Dxo pl6 has a bug with denoising where it will give a purple cast of you’re using the Neural Engine in your mac, switching to the GPU fixes that. Pureraw might have a similar issue. DxO said they are working on a fix.
Installed the app on my Dell with Intel i7 16GB Ram and Windows 11. Couldn't get it to open. Fortunately I'd only downloaded the free trial version. If I'm paying $80 for an app I would expect it to work without having to start searching Google just to get it to open.
@@FabianFoppNaturephotography The installation appeared proceed ok but when I clicked on the app a small blank window opened and then closed after a few seconds. I have, over the years, downloaded many Adobe apps to Windows and Apple machines without any problems. If I buy a new car I expect to go to the dealer, pay my money and drive it away. If I won't start I won't buy it. Same with software. I expect to pay my money, install the app and use it immediately.
Well, this could also be an issue with a graphic driver or something else. It’s not comparable to buying a car (more like: if the bluetooth connection between your new car an phone doesn’t work (but it does with other phones)
Did you check the graphics requirements before getting it? Because much like a car, I'd be damn sure to check it would even fit in my garage before buying it.
I use DXO PureRaw - then send it to ON1 for processing - every now & then it will over-sharpen an image - in those cases I delete that file and just use ON1 - Denoise where I can control the sharpening, I could never get Lightroom to work for me
Not even I expected it. Don’t rush into paying for pure raw2 as I learnt the hard way. In my case I bought it mainly for the de-noising as it looked impressive. After sending about a 1000 shots to be taking care off (it took about 4 hours) from lightroom the images came back nearly a full stop darker then when edited. I tried to send the images un edited to PR2 directly from lightroom and same result. I tried to open it directly on PR2 and same result. I have been in contact with them ever since and there is no solution till today.
@@FabianFoppNaturephotography that’s one thing I have to try to be honest as I only have canon cameras but I will try photos from some other equipment.
@@FabianFoppNaturephotography Just an other update, I tried to get in touch with DXO and their customer care is seriously lacking. I have been in contact with them since the start of December and they dont seem to bedoing much about it. I asked if I can get rembursed but according to them that goes against their policey.
Love pureraw2 but it give black images when I use my Nvidia card which is extremely fast compared to Cpu which can take about 5 minutes for a single picture depending on the complexity of the image.
Great review Thank you for sharing. Short time ago Adobe has improveed Lightroom's noise reduction. I wonder if it is better than Topaz or DXO PureRaw, it it is.... That would make everything easier and shorter (ans cheaper)
I tried both, and I might say that I much prefer Topaz Denoise on RAW method (the others Topaz methods are all flawed). What most people do as a mistake is they open Topaz within Lightroom Classic which then convert the file into a TIFF files and therefore lose all the dynamic data, the trick is to open the raw images in Topaz standalone progam first and apply the filter. I get much more details back and noise reduction with RAW method. I found DxO (especially DeepPrime method) to interpret hairs or feather with gross brush strokes as if it was a paintover, which looks to me unnatural, I can even see them in your examples.
Here you can test both programs for free and buy them at the Black-Friday special price (valid as long as, affiliate links):
Topaz: www.topazlabs.com/black-friday/ref/901/
DXO PureRaw: tidd.ly/3OwB01k
Can Fabian or someone else please let me know the species of bird at 7:00 (after the Elephant image)? I have some similar shots from Masai Mara and trying to confirm. Thank you.
It’s a Pipit, but I‘m not sure about the exact species
Topaz works nicely into my workflow with Lightroom. I mainly shoot birds so almost all of my photos are cropped. I import, crop, denoise and then edit. The crop before denoise means that I only denoise the smaller file so it's faster that way. Noise reduction has to be performed before editing otherwise your sliders are going to be enhancing the noise.
Thanks for your comment 😊 I still prefer to do rough adjustments before denoising, to me the result looked better (in terms of colors, as shown in the other video)
Dxo pl6 has a bug with denoising where it will give a purple cast of you’re using the Neural Engine in your mac, switching to the GPU fixes that. Pureraw might have a similar issue. DxO said they are working on a fix.
Thanks!
Installed the app on my Dell with Intel i7 16GB Ram and Windows 11. Couldn't get it to open. Fortunately I'd only downloaded the free trial version. If I'm paying $80 for an app I would expect it to work without having to start searching Google just to get it to open.
That’s weird. Did you find the reason? Otherwise I would contact the support, they seem to be quite responsive
@@FabianFoppNaturephotography The installation appeared proceed ok but when I clicked on the app a small blank window opened and then closed after a few seconds. I have, over the years, downloaded many Adobe apps to Windows and Apple machines without any problems. If I buy a new car I expect to go to the dealer, pay my money and drive it away. If I won't start I won't buy it. Same with software. I expect to pay my money, install the app and use it immediately.
Well, this could also be an issue with a graphic driver or something else. It’s not comparable to buying a car (more like: if the bluetooth connection between your new car an phone doesn’t work (but it does with other phones)
Did you check the graphics requirements before getting it? Because much like a car, I'd be damn sure to check it would even fit in my garage before buying it.
I use DXO PureRaw - then send it to ON1 for processing - every now & then it will over-sharpen an image - in those cases I delete that file and just use ON1 - Denoise where I can control the sharpening, I could never get Lightroom to work for me
Thanks for your input! I never tried On1
Not even I expected it. Don’t rush into paying for pure raw2 as I learnt the hard way. In my case I bought it mainly for the de-noising as it looked impressive. After sending about a 1000 shots to be taking care off (it took about 4 hours) from lightroom the images came back nearly a full stop darker then when edited. I tried to send the images un edited to PR2 directly from lightroom and same result. I tried to open it directly on PR2 and same result. I have been in contact with them ever since and there is no solution till today.
Ou, that doesn’t sound good! Was it only with one camera model?
@@FabianFoppNaturephotography that’s one thing I have to try to be honest as I only have canon cameras but I will try photos from some other equipment.
@@FabianFoppNaturephotography Just an other update, I tried to get in touch with DXO and their customer care is seriously lacking. I have been in contact with them since the start of December and they dont seem to bedoing much about it. I asked if I can get rembursed but according to them that goes against their policey.
Love pureraw2 but it give black images when I use my Nvidia card which is extremely fast compared to Cpu which can take about 5 minutes for a single picture depending on the complexity of the image.
Ou, hopefully this bug will be fixed soon!
Nice comparison, thanks!
Thanks 😊
Great review
Thank you for sharing.
Short time ago Adobe has improveed Lightroom's noise reduction.
I wonder if it is better than Topaz or DXO PureRaw, it it is.... That would make everything easier and shorter (ans cheaper)
Thanks! I didn‘t have the time to test the new LR update yet
I tried both, and I might say that I much prefer Topaz Denoise on RAW method (the others Topaz methods are all flawed). What most people do as a mistake is they open Topaz within Lightroom Classic which then convert the file into a TIFF files and therefore lose all the dynamic data, the trick is to open the raw images in Topaz standalone progam first and apply the filter. I get much more details back and noise reduction with RAW method. I found DxO (especially DeepPrime method) to interpret hairs or feather with gross brush strokes as if it was a paintover, which looks to me unnatural, I can even see them in your examples.
I tried that, but I prefered the output I got from tiff files. C1 is (imho) just doing a way better job with handling the colors than topaz