- Hey everybody, it's Tim
with Tim Boyd Photography. This weeks tutorial is
how I use Topaz Denoise AI to process my images. This is not a sponsored video. I purchased my copy of Topaz Denoise. Yeah, let's get started. So here I am in Lightroom and I'm going to show
you first this picture of a trumpeter swan that
I took a long time ago. I took it with film, so it's pretty old. But it's got a lot of digital noise in it. And I just want to show
you how topaz works okay? For this first image
and I'll show you 3 more on my regular workflow. I just want to go up to photo, edit in and pick Topaz Denoise AI. I've already loaded it up and I checked to use it
as an external editor, so that it would automatically
hook up with Lightroom. I go in here, I want it
as a TIFF, that's fine, cause it is a TIFF now. All that stuff's fine, so just click edit. Up here you can see that it's processing. Process it brings it into
Topaz and here we have the original and the
over here on this side, we have the preview of
what we're gonna do. Now, what I have done is I
have gone into preferences here and I have made sure that I
want to enable the discreet CPU just in case my graphics
card can work faster and I put it at high, just
in case my graphics card can work faster. But it doesn't because I don't have a very good graphics
card in this computer. If you've got a good graphics card, with a lot of memory on it,
4 gig of ram or something its gonna be really fast. With my computer it's pretty slow. So, over here I turn off
the auto-update preview because every time you make
a change, then it would automatically wanna update
and that can be frustrating if you're trying to move multiple sliders. So I pick the Denoise AI over AI Clear, I think this works just
a little bit better. And I'm just gonna click
auto, 90% of the time clicking auto works and
you don't have to do much. And then I'm gonna click update. It's gonna process here for a minute. This is a pretty small file,
it shouldn't take too long. Well there we go. So now you can see that all
this digital noise is gone. So here's my before, here's
just using it with auto. I can move my box around
to see things here. Now you notice that if
I move the box around it changes the preview
and I can just update it and the background will
become clear again. So lets save that and get out of that one. Now this is where my
computer is pretty slow, it takes a long time to save these. But I will cut part of this out so you don't have to suffer through. All right, lets go on
to another image here. So this is a Peregrine
falcon, it was taken on a wet, overcast, dark day at
Ocean Shores Washington. So let's just take it
into Lightroom develop, we'll crop it a little bit. I think I'm just gonna
leave it in the 4 by 3 crop. Just go like that a little bit. Just to offset the bird a little bit and get rid of a lot more gray space here. Then, I'm going to add a little
bit of color to the bird. So I'm gonna go into the landscape and that warmed this up a little bit. It's like I under-exposed by a good stop. So we'll open that up to about there. I don't need to do anything there. It was kind of a hazy day,
so we'll do the de-haze slider a little bit, good. And then we'll go down to
sharpening and I'm just gonna hit the alt, or option
key, and then I'm gonna slide this over. Now, you can see where the bird is. Only the white gets sharpened right? A lot of that white
that's in the background is all noise and we're just
gonna take all of that out, so that we don't sharpen it. And then we'll move the
sharpening up a little bit. So there I am, that's
how I process the image. I'm pretty happy with that. Now, I'm gonna go up to
photo, edit in, topaz. Not gonna change any of these things. It's gonna open up. Here it's processing, it's
telling me it's processing and then its going to open up in Denoise. Here's my images. So the
first thing I'm gonna do is get this box right on
the head of the bird. So you see my original, you
can see the preview here. I'm gonna go Denoise, I'm gonna go auto and I'm gonna hit update. And let's just see what happens here. Should clean it up pretty good. So, it's a lot better. You can see the eye is better. We can probably make it a little bit more so let's go into manual. Let's move the Denoise up to about 50. Sharpen, I'm gonna leave the same. Ah, let's see if we can recover
some original detail here. And let's try that. Most of the time I don't
have to use the sliders but this is a pretty
noisy image on a dark day and I had to open it up
a full stop because I had underexposed it. We're starting to lose
a little detail in here. So, let's bring this down a little bit and then lets try that. So you kinda play around with it. The eye of the bird looks a lot
better though in this image. So maybe that was okay. Yeah, let's call that good. You see there's a lot
less noise in the eye, the background is really clean. So, let's save that. And then it's gonna bring
this open in Lightroom and when we get into Lightroom we'll do a side-by-side comparison. Little indicator bar down here shows you how progress is going. Okay so we're back in
lightroom, so let's go to library mode, look at both
of these images side-by-side and compare them. Move in one to one. So here's the original, you
can see the eyes pretty noisy the background's pretty noise,
you can see it's cleaned up in this one. So this was ISO 6400. So I took an image that was was a stop under-exposed, shot at ISO 6400. Let's do one more. So this one is a Red-winged blackbird and this is shot at 3200. So let's go in and develop
it a little bit here. Bring it down a little bit tighter, so that he's off-centered. Let's see what I need to do for exposure. I think I'm gonna open up
the shadows in the bottom of the bird a little bit. Pull down the highlights. Kinda balance those 2
a little bit like that. Gonna do a little bit of de-haze
and then let's sharpen it. All option, move the
mask over to the right. See this image? There's
a lot less digital noise in the background than
the other 2 that we had. But it will still get
rid of that digital noise so I don't have to drag
the masking over as far. Bump that up a little bit. So we're ready to go. Then we'll do photo, edit in, topaz, all those things are gonna be the same. I'm not gonna change those,
so I'm just gonna reduce that. Go there. Here it's telling us that its preparing the file for editing. It will open up in Topaz. There was a lot of noise
down here at the tail, so let's do auto-update again. All right, so that is considerably less noisy than the other one. The backgrounds cleaner,
there's a lot more noise in the tail here,
than there is over here. Still not really as good as I would like. So, I'm gonna go into manual, I'm gonna remove noise
up to about 40 or so, recovery, let's do that. Most of the time, I
don't have to use manual. I just use auto. It cleans it up a little
bit. Boom, I'm ready to go. So now you can see that
I've removed all the noise, but, I've lost a lot of detail as well. Let's move this sharpening
down a little bit. Let's move this down a little bit. Let's try that. So you kinda have to
tinker around with it. But I think the more we use it, the more we kinda get
used to what's gonna work for different kinds of images. I think this is gonna be okay. I lowered a little bit, so
as long as the eye remains pretty sharp, there's less noise. You can see down in
here there's less noise. So that's good. Let's go move forward. And here again, it's gonna
take my computer a while to process this and
save it into Lightroom, but once it does we will do
a side-by-side comparison. Okay, so we're back in Lightroom. Let's go to the library
module, grid-mode here. We will choose these two images. Do a side-by-side comparison. And here's the original ISO 3200. We zoom in a little bit. The eye is a little bit clearer, there's less noise in the mouth. Most of the noise was
down by the tail area and you can see down in
here that the tail noise has really been cleaned up a lot. So that's how I use Topaz AI Denoise. If you have any questions
about it, you know shoot me a question down
in the comments below. And if you like what
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