download dxo pureraw 3 vs topaz photo ai

These dng files ARE in the basic form a tiff file.

Demosaicing is in basic a form of upscaling, so the output is larger than the input. So it’s only normal for those files to be larger than the input. Your raw file (assuming Bayer array ) is full resolution but monochrome (or 4 channels but 1/4th of the full resolution, however you look at it ). Yes my process sounds nuts - uses lots of storage and processing power - but it works for me.A dng written by those tools is full resolution r, g and b. but take care to avoid the Enhancement tools - particularly face enhancement - unless you are into cartoons.įor very special stuff - I use layers in PS to paint in and localise various copies of the same image - but as a rule when processing large numbers of images - NOPE it is too much work. Sometimes I will use Sharpen AI as an alternative when I want to be very precise in the sharpening and where it is applied I find Photo AI an overly blunt instrument - but it has improved a lot since the original free release. BUT - I do not use LRC's sharpening or noise reduction - I find on most occasions that Topaz DeNoise AI give me what I want (noise reduction and basically simple sharpening). So I still import all files from the cards/cameras then apply the PR3 plugin to process the RAW conversion AND then finish my edits in LRC with PS and other tools as needed. LRC and PS (with ACR) has great tools and very time saving masking and local adjustment tools - PS is now crazy deep. ACR/LRC treats these files very similarly to RAW files but the work PR3 has done is in them (not the same with other types of PNG file)

So I use PR3 to process my select raw files and generate a Linear PNG file. WHY - since day one to today while Adobe ACR/LRC was the first software to 'permit' processing of Z9 Lossless RAW files - the results have looked 'lousy' to me - I much prefer what Capture One and then Pure Raw did to these files. I take all the Z9 Lossless RAW files I want to use through the Deep Prime or DeepPrime XD - I am yet to see the real difference but XD runs almost as fast on my Mac Studio as Deep Prime - so I have been using XD recently. I do not use any Topaz AI tool for RAW conversion. I apply PR3 towards the start of my process and the Topaz AI tools as needed at the end. For me Topaz AI plugins and DxO Raw 3 (PR3) perform entirely separate roles.

Download dxo pureraw 3 vs topaz photo ai