[Leica] I came over to the dark side

[photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)]

Yes, I use the AI noise reduction more and more as well. Great tool.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
photo at frozenlight.eu

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> On 2 Mar 2025, at 23:18, Christopher Crawford <chris at 
> chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:
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> I have used the subscription service a long time. I haven?t tried the AI 
> object removal stuff yet, but one AI tool in the current version of 
> Lightroom that I use all the time is the AI Noise Reduction. It is 
> absolutely incredible. I can shoot at ISO-3200 with my Olympus m4/3 gear, 
> which has a lot of noise at 3200, and the AI Noise tool removes 100% of 
> the noise with NO reduction in resolution. The regular noise reduction 
> slider, which is part of the sharpening controls, smears out image detail 
> if you set it high enough to totally remove ISO-3200 noise from m4/3 
> images. Even on images shot at the base ISO-200 setting, the AI Noise 
> Reducer gives more fine resolution than I get with the standard NR control.
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> From: LUG <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org> on 
> behalf of "Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>" <lug at 
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> Reply-To: "Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>" <lug at 
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> Date: Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 4:55?PM
> To: Leica Reflex <LeicaReflex at freelists.org>, "Leica Users Group <lug 
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> Cc: Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Leica] I came over to the dark side
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> 
> Yep.  I actually purchased the Adobe Photographer subscription a while 
> 
> back before the prices went up.  I have not done much with it yet 
> 
> preferring to stick with Lightroom 6 and CS6, but I  have gotten curious 
> 
> about the AI abilities in removing objects.  I have to say I am mostly 
> 
> impressed.  Here are a few examples from a recent trip to Leavenworth.  
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> They are doing a lot of construction along the main drag so there was 
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> lots of equipment interfering with the usual nice views, so I took some 
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> shots anyway specifically to try the AI removal tools in LR and 
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> Photoshop. Here are the results.
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> Original Image with some offending outhouses: Leavenworth WA-1004237 
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004237.jpg.html>
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> A little AI removal: Leavenworth WA-1004237-Edit 
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004237-Edit.jpg.html>
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> Another original image with trucks and structures: Leavenworth 
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> WA-1004234 
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004234.jpg.html>
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> And AI removal: Leavenworth WA-1004234-Edit 
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004234-Edit.jpg.html>
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> If you were to blow them up and look carefully I am sure you could see 
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> they were worked on.  For one thing, the AI synthisized image is much 
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> lower resolution than the Q3 original image.  I think it is 1 or 2 K 
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> resolution.  And of course there would be a few artifacts that if I was 
> 
> really industrious I would have to work on.  But by and large they took 
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> a totally unacceptable image and made it into a pretty good mediocre 
> 
> image in my unskilled hands.  Maybe you are an old hand at this so these 
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> seem pretty amateurish to you.  Maybe I will work on it or maybe I will 
> 
> just take more time to line shots up that do not require the use of this 
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> tool.  Be a real photographer rather than a technician.
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> Comments welcome.
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> Aram
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