AI noise reduction to bring a new live of the old data

  • Posted on: 9 December 2022
  • By: tihomiry

As may times I said it is essential to keep all your shots over the years, as you can go back and reprocess them.
Make new discoveries or improve the resulting image quality.
I recently learn about Topaz DeNoise and get it on the black Friday :) It is artificial intelligence driven software for noise reduction.
It is not designed for Astrophotography but give good results by suppressing the noise and keep the details.
Even more, it reveals some extra details, hidden into the shadows of the noise.
I had a lot of data that I shot with crazy high ISO.
So here are some process examples of stacked data, processed without applying conventional NR. I kept this as last step with Topaz DeNoise.

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Helix Nebula

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Make new discoveries or improve the resulting image quality.

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