Noise

[glorybound]

Can someone share an image, before and after it was cleaned with a denoiser? I would like to see what is an okay amount of noise that can be cleaned up and with what. Everything I tried blurs the image, almost like its a watercolor. I think noise ninja was the best that I tried.

[super gnu]

the only denoiser ive ever been impressed with is the Altus one ( and the renderman one of course) which was discussed to death recently. all current denoisers ive seen ( ones that use just the single raw render) do the watercolour thing. unless you use on almost the lowest setting with an image that is probably clean enough anyway.

[glorybound]

Vlado mentioned that most people denoise in post, and if that is the case, I wonder what is being used. Also, I wonder what you can get away with.

[particlerealities]

I usually just live with it, but my first step would be either Lightroom or Photoshop, then mask in/out the areas that needed the noise removed as a layer in Photoshop.

[FSGFX]

there are two huge Altus threads here... do a search...

[glorybound]

Yes, I have kept up with those, however, it doesn't seem ready for prime-time. Isn't there some coding and scripting for it to work?

there are two huge Altus threads here... do a search...

[glorybound]

With some of these render times I hear I was just wondering if they get a noisy render out of V-Ray and clean it in post. Heck, I can get a noisy render very fast

I usually just live with it, but my first step would be either Lightroom or Photoshop, then mask in/out the areas that needed the noise removed as a layer in Photoshop.

[FSGFX]

think denoise should be used get the last 5% out of an image... to make a good image a perfect one....
and not rendering only 5% of the needed time and try to do some magic...to make a shitty image a washed out one...

[Oleg_Budeanu]

Not sure what are your steps on de-noising , are you de-noising RGB or by elements ?