For photographers whose cameras are supported by a camera preset and who capture in JPEG or TIFF formats, this allows them to perform noise reduction on entire folders automatically with a few mouse clicks. For my Nikon D750, for instance, I found I couldn’t really improve upon the preset when making my own manual adjustments. But the camera-specific presents in DeNoise makes it easy. There are many sources of image “noise” in a digital photo, making the noise reduction task a complex one. Sorting this out and understanding the limitations of the Reduce Blur and Banding Width sliders takes some time, as the results are subtle. Different noise reduction parameter sliders are meant to be used with different preview display modes to get the most out of the program. While the workspace follows the current conventions with a presets panel on the left, navigator window and settings panel on the right, and a preview window in the center, getting the most out of the settings tabs and their associated parameter sliders is not particularly intuitive. Users upgrading from earlier versions of DeNoise will have an easy time navigating the version 6 interface, but new users would do well to view some of the excellent tutorials on the Topaz Labs website in order to get the most out of the program. You can remove the noise from most images using only this mode and the Overall Strength slider. The RGB Preview Mode displays the noise in all color channels. The DeNoise 6 workspace organizes presets to the left, navigator and settings to the right, and a large preview window in the center. The presets are available for a range of high ISO settings for six Canon, five Nikon, and one each Panasonic, Sony, Olympus and Fujifilm cameras at present, with more presets promised in the future. Batch processing in the standalone version processes folders of TIFF, JPEG and PNG images once you open a sample image and set the noise reduction parameters.Īlso new in DeNoise 6 are camera-specific presets, the ability to view EXIF metadata attached to an image and high-resolution monitor support. DeNoise 6, as with version 5, will install as a plug-in to Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, Serif Photo Plus, Corel Paintshop Pro and Photo Impact, and Topaz photoFXlab, but photographers not shooting in a RAW file format can access DeNoise 6 noise reduction features through the standalone version. There are several significant new features in version 6, but two stand out for me: the ability for it to run as a standalone program as well as a plug-in, and its ability to batch process an entire directory of images. I tested DeNoise 6.0.1 on both platforms and the look as well as the results were as identical as the two platforms allow. New users can purchase the program for $80 directly from and install it on two computers, either Mac or PC. Topaz Labs has updated its well-respected noise reduction program DeNoise to version 6 to meet the needs of photographers venturing into the realm of high ISO.ĭeNoise 6 is a free update for registered users of DeNoise 5 on Mac and PC platforms. Those who succumb to this temptation soon find that image noise increases in pace with higher ISO settings. It is rotten news for me, but does make it clear that there is no way to use ReMask 5 from AP under current conditions and, short of new functionality from Serif, no real expectation for the future either.Now that ISO speeds in digital SLRs have achieved astronomical numbers (like 3,276,800 on the Nikon D5), the temptation for photographers is to actually use ISO settings greater than 6400. So, unless AP intended to implement an external editor call for apps I can no longer even try to use it from AP or APB. My only choice is to use the stand-alone ReMask 5 app (which means I can not use it from AP) or the Lightroom plugin (which means I can not use it from AP). Further, it is also incompatible with both FusionExpress 2 and photoFXlab so I can not call it using either of those. It does provide a Lightroom plugin and says that there is a plugin for Photoshop, but there is no normal plugin for it that I can find on my system after installation, nothing with a plugin suffix. ReMask 5 installs properly (and works very well) but does not seem to have a standard plugin. Perhaps I do not really believe that, but I did stop trying to install it and turned to ReMask 5. The installation of ReMask 4 gave me a warning that it was incompatible with EC and installing it might damage my computer. Having just bought a new Mac Mini I started to reinstall my Topaz plugins. I don't know if this is good news or bad news for AP users who want to use Topaz's ReMask but the upgrade to El Capitan has apparently complicated the use of ReMask.
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