About halfway down, you'll see the Additional External Editor section. Click "Choose. Navigate to your desired application. Open the folder of the desired program. Select the program file itself from within the file. We'll use Sharpen AI is used as an example here.
Click the Preset dropdown. Give your new preset a name. When completed, your preset name and program should show together like this:. After you exit the Lightroom preferences, there are several ways to invoke the plugin. Still need help? 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?
Sort by date Sort by votes. I briefly used Topaz in LR as a plug-in. Tim Sent from my HD using Tapatalk. Upvote 0 Downvote. As you indicated, there are a number of schools of thought on how best to use Topaz Denoise; before adjustments or after. Also don't forget that Denoise also sharpens images. In a similar way Topaz Sharpen sharpens and denoises as well but the ability is divided between the two so Topaz can sell you two products.
I think the larger question is understand detailing and noise, and the different types, and where that should be applied in your workflow. One of the guidance's from Victoria's Getting Started Guide is to work adjustments from the top down. Unfortunately, I've found what you really need to do is some experimentation to find the best way to add each steps into your workflow. Lataxe said:. Click to expand Jimmsp Senior Member. This can be a complex question, but I'll give you my simple answer.
There can be a lot of subtle detail that is very photo dependent and camera sensor sensitive. So, you need to make decisions based on the camera ISO, resultant noise, and lens. For instance, not all my lenses need Sharpen AI. In LR I'll sort photos into good - better - best. Generally, I'll only do a lot of work on the "best"; including use of Topaz.
I am generally happy with the LR results on the others, including noise reduction. I'll then use Sharpen AI in a new layer. Sometimes I'll creatively sharpen differently in different areas of a photo, and using PS layers and masks makes this easy. I'll later send a Tiff back to LR for final work, final crop, and export. A belated thanks to all who have posted for your experience and advice with Topaz. So far I haven't bought or even downloaded the trial Topaz noise-reduction or sharpening products At first sight, such a program seems to claim the impossible put in lots of 16bit-size accurate photo detail that was either missing from an original camera jpeg or was lost when converting a RAW file to an 8bit jpeg.
Surprisingly, it seems to work quite well! A 16bit DNG from an 8bit jpeg!! Perhaps the Topaz sharpening and de-noise programs will be of use, though, with the cameras I use which have less capable sensors an Olympus TG6 and a Lumix FZ80, which both have teeny-weeny sensors.
But I have thousands of older photos taken with the relatively primitive digital cameras of yesteryear, often as 8bit camera jpegs. There are many that are worth the sort of improvements particularly to tone and detail that Topaz jpeg-to-Raw seems able to obtain. It's early days with this Topaz program as yet, so I'm still finding best-settings to make significant improvements without the artefacts that turning up the Topaz gas seems prone to produce.
However, this particular Topaz program surprised and impressed me with its capability, so I'm still inclined to try their sharpening and de-noise stuff
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