#Topaz studio 2 vs denoise ai free

In general, especially w/ NR and Sharpening, are they slower? How much slower? I've read that AI Gigapixel is pretty slow I don't know if all of the other AI programs are, too. I'm working with 32 Gigs of RAM, yet sometimes find Dfine kind of slow - certainly not unbearable, but not instantaneous.

I work a little harder with Nik Sharpener, but again, find it intuitive and easy same general questions as above.

I find Nik Dfine easy, and am usually happy with the default setting again, is Topaz similar, as easy, as intuitive? Or do I need make judgement calls with a bunch of sliders and face a steep new learning curve? Nik's 'U-Point' (or whatever) technology is sometimes very handy any way to do localized adjustments without layer masks in Topaz? Speaking of Viveza, I find it very handy for both global and localized adjustments (at times.) I didn't see anything like that in the Topaz stuff I've looked at. I love that I can click Filters -> Nik Collection -> Viveza (or whatever,) as opposed to dealing with stand alone programs Can Topaz work the same way with PS? Correct? If so, I definitely want to take a look at Topaz.

#Topaz studio 2 vs denoise ai free

I use PS CC, and haven't updated in a while, because I believe I read that recent updates will kill my free Nik Collection, and I'd have to buy new. By the way, I live in an area with *terrible* internet, so surfing YouTube vid's isn't an option. If anyone's willing to help, I'm going to throw out a bunch of statements and questions that I'd love to see addressed by those more knowledgeable than me. I've read a lot of stuff lately, and I'm just getting more and more confused. I'm an enthusiastic, somewhat advanced amateur photog. DChan's post caught my attention, but I didn't want to hijack his thread, so here's a new one.