
What we’re trying to find out (in Morganti’s words) is “Does Lightroom’s sharpening and noise reduction stink?” He uses a somewhat soft and noisy image of a bird to illustrate how all three methods work so you can examine the results and decide for yourself. Today’s episode takes things further, with a quick shootout between Lightroom and the options from Topaz. Morganti recently shared a shootout between the two Topaz Labs apps mentioned above, and we encourage you to take a look by clicking on the link in the description beneath this video. We typically post his Photoshop and Lightroom lessons, but today’s video is a comparison to help you decide if you need a third-party app (or two). Image-editing impresario Anthony Morganti is a favorite among Shutterbug readers for fast and effective tutorials on a wide range of processing techniques.



In today’s tutorial you’ll see how Lightroom compares to Topaz Photo AI and Topaz Denoise AI when in comes to fixing soft images and banishing noise. Sharpening and noise reduction are two very important tasks, and there are a number of options available other than Lightroom-including two very popular apps from Topaz Labs.
