I've never liked the noise reduction in LR, I rather have a little bit of noise than use it, but the demosaicing and deep prime noise reduction in DxO Photolab 4 is something completely different. I've started to do demosaicing, lens corrections (lens sharpness) and deep prime in photolab, export the images back to LR as dng-files and continue from there, and I am really happy with the result.
Is anyone else doing this or have you found another way to improve on the image quality in LR?
This is a description of what I do:
https://www.squarepixel.photography/article/dxo-photolab-4s-second-best-new-feature
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Since I didn't go along with topaz labs extortion attempt (the refunded all my money thank god) I don't use their Denise ai either.
What I kept was https://projects-software.com/denoise Pro 3. It's way different and I love it. If you join the mailing list just about everyday they do a huge drop on an apps price, like Denise pro 3 went from $99 to $29.
It's good stuff and no one really knows them