Nizwa musicians: noise reduction

gigaturbo · November 20, 2025, 5:15pm

iarga · November 20, 2025, 8:58pm

Thank you for the play,

Edit with ART, GIMP and G’MIC:

dqpcoxeas · November 21, 2025, 3:15pm

My version…

EmerS · November 21, 2025, 4:01pm

I think your noise reduction looks great, @plantarum! And I can’t help on color, because, well…as you can see.

I see you use RT, so my dt edits are of no use, but I couldn’t help from playing with it anyhow.

dt nightly 5.3.0+901~gbaff9166fd : TZ5_1506.NEF.xmp (13.4 KB)

NaBaCo · November 23, 2025, 5:05pm

This looks amazing, especially the crisp whites and blues. Can you detail out how did you achieve that?

lightlover · November 23, 2025, 7:42pm

patrakov · November 24, 2025, 5:56pm

Here is what I did:

Downloaded your original RAW file and RawTherapee settings
Disabled noise reduction
Rendered a PNG file, taking all other settings intact
Loaded the PNG file into Upscayl, which is a local AI tool for image upscaling, applied the default “Upscayl Standard” model and 1x scale
- 1x scale might seem pointless, but it isn’t: it’s an effective but slow denoiser
Converted the result to JPEG and uploaded - see below.

The AI warning applies - but it was running on my laptop.

Vladimir_Podlesnykh · December 24, 2025, 10:28am

RawTherapee 5.12

Dito_Budi · December 30, 2025, 9:08am

JApolozan · January 18, 2026, 4:42pm

White balance was rather tricky, probably fluorescent light of some kind. Great sensor dynamic range test.