The more AI denoising I see, the more critical I get. The results are often astonishing. Regarding noise as well as to it’s plastic look.
Just for comparison:
if you look at the results (your’s with rawrefinery and mine) zoomed out, they look quite similar:
Watching at 100% view I simply prefer the overall look of traditional denoising:
This is not ment as a bashing against RawRefinery, but as some critical thinking and maybe it is just a matter of taste. I salute Ryan for his efforts. I as well think at some point AI denoising becomes the better tool. But still, I don’t like it’s look. Maybe there are ways to train the AI in a way it doesn’t act that aggressively to avoid the somewhat artificial look.