Please Improve noise reduction to modern standards

Please add modern noise reduction.

Yes, I understand studio photographers are an important customer base for you, but we are many, many photographers that use and love C1 for our photos taken out in the wild and dark, and we miss this feature very much.

Thanks to the team for a lot of great features in 2025, if I'm still round-tripping to Topaz to clean up photos (noise primarily), slows the flow considerably. Maybe by next year have a new present under the tree?

good to see that this request has the highest number of votes. A modern AI supported noise reduction is needed. This is the only feature in Lightroom that I really miss in C1

I agree with this idea. I like C1 so much, but denoising from Lightroom I miss. In the past I was updating photo in C1 and when I needed to remove noise, I finished editing in Lightroom. When Adobe increased prices, I decided that there is no need to have two tools and I'm waiting for this improvement in C1.

This is way overdue and shouldn’t be the most complicated feature to integrate. I understand it is not required for all sorts of photography, but for some the lack of proper adjustable (from light to heavy) noise reduction is painful (wildlife, street, sports). All C1 alternatives have implemented advanced NR for quite some years already.

definitely need it

noise reduction comparable to lightroom and dxo should be a high priority

Commenting here to let the devs know that this is an absolute top effing priority. No wonder this is the most voted for feature request by a large margin.

AI noise reduction really is the only reason why i open up lightroom these days. If C1 had AI noise reduction i would completely ditch adobe.

It would be useful to introduce AI in noise reduction

Long overdue. Others are light-years ahead.

Another vote for fixing noise reduction in Capture One. A lot of the new AI selection tools and fixes for portraits and stuff are really cool, but if the fundamental image needs noise reduction it requires using an external app, which as mentioned many times before in this thread, creates a giant speed bump that slows post-processing to a crawl. Lightroom, Adobe Camera Raw, DxO Pure Raw, Topaz Photo AI, etc. etc. All of them have improved noise reduction dramatically over the last few years yet it seems like Capture One has completely overlooked making any noise reduction improvements to C1 for quite a while now.

Please, please, please make this a priority and catch up to your competitors so it doesn't require a huge wast of time round-tripping to PureRaw or Adobe Raw, resaving it as a dng, and then having to re-import it to C1. The time and effort that has gone into making Capture One a fast and powerful image editor is hobbled by the dated and not terribly effective noise reduction.

Read som of the comments and could just agree with most of them, makes me consider alternative when I see how superior the other are (LR).

As said by many, focus must really be on studio workflow and not on many real life situations where ISO somtimes can get High

I waste SO MUCH TIME round-tripping for noise reduction, and I would rather change professions than to have to go back to Lightroom. What is it going to take? I'm the 550th scream on this post, created in March of 2023, and even though features like teeth whitening are cool and all that, it pales in comparison to the desperate need for good NR in C1. I have an idea... How about you buy out DxO and incorporate their tech? I'm just spit balling here, but this is seriously the only feature missing from C1 that I can think of. Other than creating it yourselves, maybe you can find it elsewhere? I have a weeklong shoot at the end of the month and will come back with over 5,000 images and would give my left nut if I could just veg out in C1 and turn out the entire project in a couple of days instead of burning countless hours f*cking around with round-tripping to DxO. Please, for the love of God, new NR. Nothing else is more important (imho).

I agree wholeheartedly with the suggestion to add AI supported noise reduction to C1. However, I bought DxO PureRAW 5 and ON1 2025 as an addition to C1 recently. Result: I preferred the C1 method for all Hi ISO images (ISO > 6400 - 8000, up to >= 30000) I've tried.

Therefore: Yes, please add a more sophistic NR method, but please keep the recent C1 NR version as an alternative.

Noise reduction and sharpening options via AI akin to something like Pure Raw, but all within Capture One really is overdue at this point. I have been looking jealously at Lightroom the last couple of years in this regard.

I shoot underwater, where noise is always a big challenge — and unfortunately, this has forced me to switch back to Lightroom. Adobe’s new Denoise tool is simply outstanding. I would love to return to Capture One, because I genuinely prefer it for everything else, but in today’s workflow, powerful denoising is essential. I truly hope the C1 team invests in improving this feature, because right now the current tool just can’t keep up.

The denoising in C1 is not bad, but no longer meets today's requirements. I often need this tool, but I have to rely on third-party manufacturers (DXO pure RAW) which is not in my interest. The workflow is unnecessarily slowed down and additional annual costs are also incurred.

It would be nice to be able to not have to round trip a Tiff to Topaz. FYI, I don't use the Topaz raw denoise because I fine it causes a colour shift. I do denoise in Topaz as a layer in Affinity Photo so I can mask out areas of artifact. The relevance to this request is that it would be nice to not only be able to avoid going through this process but also avoid the occasional artificing that occurs in Topaz how ever much I reduce the preserve detail/sharpening.

I love Capture one overall. i also use DxO PL8 that I find inferior colorwise, but have no choice but use with a DNG workflow for high ISO images. It's way better than Capture one noise reduction.

I am currently under subscription.

Noise reduction is by far the most critical shortcoming of C1 Pro.