Plug-ins for noise reduction
I read on the macuser forum that it's possible to use Topaz Denoise, Nik Dfine, and Noiseware as Capture One plug-ins. I just downloaded all of them to see what would be the best noise reduction software to use with Capture One. All of them bring up Aperture, Lightroom, and Photoshop as possible "hosts," but there's no way to introduce them into Capture One as the host. Does anyone have ideas on this? I appreciate any and all suggestions. Thank you.
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[quote="MPekala" wrote:
I read on the macuser forum that it's possible to use Topaz Denoise, Nik Dfine, and Noiseware as Capture One plug-ins. I just downloaded all of them to see what would be the best noise reduction software to use with Capture One. All of them bring up Aperture, Lightroom, and Photoshop as possible "hosts," but there's no way to introduce them into Capture One as the host. Does anyone have ideas on this? I appreciate any and all suggestions. Thank you.
I've tried this with NIK so I know it works with their plugins, but I can't speak for Topaz or others.
Once you've installed NIK, you can right-click any thumbnail in the C1 browser and choose "Edit with..." in the dialog box that pops up, select a 16-bit TIFF and then in the "Open with" drop down list, select the NIK plugin of choice... if you don't see it listed there, select "other..." from the bottom of the list and navigate to the app (Applications > NIK Collection). Then click "Edit Variant". C1 will create a TIFF file and put it in the catalog next to your original and launch the desired plugin (it may launch under the C1 window so look for it there). When you're done in NIK, save the image, and you should be returned to C1 with your image edits saved into the catalog.0 -
Hi. Thanks. Yes, that worked for the Nik plug-ins, but I couldn't get it to work with Noiseware, because Noiseware somehow buries itself within Photoshop Elements and I couldn't find it anywhere. I also downloaded Topaz Denoise about 5 times but I couldn't get it to install. Messing around, though, with Nik Dfine and some other things, it looks like Lightroom's noise reduction is far superior to Capture One's and far better than anything else I've been able to try. I might not give up on Lightroom after all, after using it to process some shots I had taken in my daughter's elementary school gym at ISO 4000. 0 -
[quote="MPekala" wrote:
Hi. Thanks. Yes, that worked for the Nik plug-ins, but I couldn't get it to work with Noiseware, because Noiseware somehow buries itself within Photoshop Elements and I couldn't find it anywhere. I also downloaded Topaz Denoise about 5 times but I couldn't get it to install. Messing around, though, with Nik Dfine and some other things, it looks like Lightroom's noise reduction is far superior to Capture One's and far better than anything else I've been able to try. I might not give up on Lightroom after all, after using it to process some shots I had taken in my daughter's elementary school gym at ISO 4000.
Yeah, while C1 has a bit less noise after import than some RAW converters, Lightroom's NR is second to none. It's remarkably effective. While you can get carried away and turn your images to mush, it's nice to be able to totally smooth out noise while still keeping the detail in tact.
I did a comparison a couple of years ago (LR4 and C1v7)...
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Thank you. That, like your others, is a great post. Informative and interesting. Thank you for pointing me to it. Having moved more or less completely from Aperture to Lightroom about a year ago, and then moved more or less completely to Capture One, I think that in the future, I'll be using Capture One for 95% of my work and using Lightroom for those high-ISO noisy shots. 0
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