#Topaz detail in lightroom software
#Topaz detail in lightroom windows

I have run many photos through both Topaz Denoise AI and Sharpen AI. There can be a lot of subtle detail that is very photo dependent and camera sensor sensitive. This can be a complex question, but I'll give you my simple answer. Moreover, the RAW images are only little 20Mp items from a Lumix FZ1000 or 12Mb from an Olympus TG6.

#Topaz detail in lightroom windows

PS Processing power is not too much of an issue, with a fat GPU and CPU eager for work within the Windows PC. What do you Topaz/LR users prefer as a workflow and why?Īny advice and further insights/corrections to improve my understanding will be welcome. followed by a final export into an 8-bit jpeg for general use, sharing, sending to others and so forth. On the other hand, I generally do export LR-edited RAW files as PSDs for any final tweaks in Photoshop. Using Topaz products as plug-ins within LR would be more convenient - but at the cost of losing the RAW file, if the Topaz results (along with any LR edits) can only be exported/used as a TIFF or PSD file.

If I have this right, would it therefore be best to use Topaz first, on my from-camera RAW files, as a stand-alone noise-reduction 'editor', followed by procesing in Lightroom on the resultant DNG file to do the usual things I might do to a RAW file in Lightroom to improve the photo? As I understand it, doing noise reduction as a first step will give a better quality (DNG) file for LR edits, which edits will have a greatly reduced tendency to exagerate noise, since noise will have already been eliminated or reduced.?

#Topaz detail in lightroom software

There's already a thread for this but it seems to be discussing the Topaz noise reduction software used as a plug-in rather than as a stand-alone product.Īm I right, though, in thinking that use of the Topaz products as plug-ins to LR means that any original RAW file must be exported as a TIFF or other non-RAW file format following processing by the Topaz plug-in? The alternative seems to be to use a Topaz product as a stand-alone editor first, which can then have a DNG file as the export following the noise reduction (or whatever else Topaz processing does).