RedRobin
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Well done @RedRobin. That's a fabulous wave!
I won't keep harping on about Photolab, but I have just been going through some old photos and found this one from 2018 taken when it was really quite dark with ISO 6400.
Apart from the standard DxO module, I've done a little sharpening on the eyes and then run it through DeepPrime, and cropped a fair bit. Taken with the 300mm f/4 1/125s on Em1ii.
It probably needs lightening a bit, but I'm very impressed with Photolab 4.
.... Thanks @Bebop. The waves keep on coming (of course!) and so many of the surfable ones are fabulous in their own right.
I considered DXO when Apple stopped supporting their RAW editor called Aperture several years ago but I chose Capture One and am happy with it although, like Photoshop, it offers more than I usually need. I use Photoshop CS6 as a Filters/Plug-ins host and so have not updated my macOS beyond 10.14 Mojave because I can't run CS6 on the later macOS.
There are now a number of good RAW editors in the market, all slightly different and each offering different advantages but not being a professional I can't justify having all of them. I already have ON1 and Affinity but not Lightroom.
Regarding noise reduction, whereas I have found Topaz AI DeNoise good for many subjects it is abysmal for seascapes. I think this is because there are so many different textures and subtle colours that its Artificial 'Intelligence' simply can't cope and Topaz have not so far catered for this. So for noise reduction I have returned to Imageonic and it not only works extremely well but also much much much faster, not that I need it to. However, I rarely choose ISO values more than about 1000 - I would rather under expose and rescue in post-processing (I only shoot RAW, never JPEG).
It's one thing to have to pay for main editing software but I baulk at being asked to pay to update a plug-in (AI DeNoise).