

I'd love to know your experience with AI-based noise reduction software. I've had varying success depending on the animal within the photo as well and it really is dependent on the clarity of the original image.
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Overall I'm very pleased with the results and it means I can print such an image much larger than I could before but where ON1's NoNoise AI really shines is high ISO wildlife photography. The results of the nightscape are good, but it is limited by trying to guess and evaluate every object and detail within the image. It does an even better job at enhancing the areas of the image after removing the noise.
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When the software can detect what type of object, in this case, a bird, within the image. Ever since adding learning-based computation, the AI part of all recent software suites, the results have become mind-blowingly powerful. Years ago when I tried software like this it would always give very mixed results and end up ruining parts of the image like the transitions from branches to background. The truth is, I don't think I changed a single setting on most of these images. You can find more examples in the video within this article.

If your results aren't as pleasing I'd suggest adjusting the amounts of processing you're applying to your image. Typically noise comes through as green or red grainy texture and the fact that it can differentiate between the noise and what is actual details within the image is amazing. Then look at the noise-reduced version and how it kept the essence of those blurred green parts yet still reduced the noise correctly. Look specifically at the areas where there are out-of-focus leaves in front of the eagle and how the transitional area from those blurry leaves to the eagle feathers has a lot of green in it, as you'd expect from blurry leaves. The feathers, the beak, the out-of-focus areas - every single thing within the image looks better after processing it through the software. At almost 100% crop it becomes quite obvious how incredible the results are and to me, this feels like magic.
