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Created by Tino Nettling
Created on Mar 19, 2023

Please Improve noise reduction to modern standards

What problem do you see this solving?

the noise reduction in C1 is so outdated, often it makes images worse then without. They just get blurry. Actually i never use whats given in C1.


please see here a comparison of the output of C1 vs Lightroom with integrated AI denoise

C1

https://support.captureone.com/hc/user_images/YI3A8sGpB9T2HGSR41Lvfw.jpeg

LR

https://support.captureone.com/hc/user_images/KmFVfOGbSuTm5DrffbhPZw.jpeg





When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?

today - i often shoot in the dark. Even modern cameras, with their much enhanced performance in the last years, end up delivering to noisy images.

Current workaround

Are you using any workarounds or other solutions to achieve your goals in Capture One?

Yes, but relying on external tools is always somewhat complicated and brings disadvantages.

So i'd love to see some big improvements here.

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  • ed turlington
    May 29, 2026

    Enhanced Denoise—excellent image quality—and only takes 7 seconds on my machine. Thank you!


  • Rene Froehlich
    May 29, 2026

    Thank you, will upgrade when Fuji X-Trans is supported.

  • Robert Gorski
    May 29, 2026

    Love it! Works very, very well. Better than other software I was using. I am really impressed with the results. Thx CO team.

  • FirstName LastName
    May 29, 2026

    Love it but won’t upgrade until x-trans V is supported

  • Georges Mélon
    May 29, 2026

    Love it! The tool is great, thanks, just waiting for X-Trans availability now

  • Bernard Languillier
    May 29, 2026

    This is a game changer for my dance photography. Thank you!

    One thing I haven't found is how I can apply the new NR to several files at once. It seems I need to click the check mark manually for every image one by one.

  • norio fukuda
    May 29, 2026

    I'd like to be able to set a shortcut for reviews. Also, I'd like reviews to start automatically when shooting tethered. It would probably be good to be able to disable this feature, especially if eyes are closed during shooting.

  • Tino Nettling
    May 29, 2026

    Love it! Thanks! Looks absolutly stunning!

  • Jochen Kratschmer
    May 8, 2026

    Great news. Just tried it out and I'd say: It is what was needed. Color noise is not gone completely but reduced to very low levels. If we could use the color noise slider on the enhanced NR files there might still be a bit more to achieve. Some hot (white) pixels are still there so I'd also love to see the hot pixel slider being usable on the "enhanced" files. Can you keep these two sliders - or at least their effect - alive after enhanced noise reduction has been applied?

    DXORaw still manages to squeeze a bit more detail out of the RAWs but it's demosaicing generates colors that don't match with the C1 colors and need more tweaking, not to speak of the giant DNG files it creates. Being spared this round-trip is a most welcome improvement.

    Sharpening is possible but it also affects the remaining luminance noise so the it's usability is limited. But finally I'm able to use my Z8 with the same ISOs as my old D3s and still get more usable pixels despite the sacrifices that have to be made.

    On the Mac Studio it puts a heavy load on the GPUs so I expect it to be noticeably slower on machines with less of them.

    My impression is that again C1 has found a way that allows them to still use their unique demosaicing secret sauce which I believe to be some genius math that roots way back to the early 1990s. We probably never will know. My only question is: Why did it take you so long?

  • GUILLERMO VAZQUEZ PIC
    May 8, 2026

    Hi. Let´s see how it works with my IQ4 150 on higher ISO

  • Brian Jordan
    May 7, 2026

    First off, I'm loving the new Enhanced NR. It covers my needs very well.


    That said, it surely would be great to be able to mask that overlay file such that ENR only applies to a portion of my image. Any chance of you bringing that up with the devs?

  • Bill Coley
    May 6, 2026

    This is exciting news! Thanks, CO team, for listening to your customer base and moving to enhance noise reduction in the software. I look forward to using the results of your efforts. Good luck!

  • Admin
    Capture One Product Manager
    May 6, 2026

    Hi all. Thanks for your votes and comments. We're happy to announce that you can try this in our 16.8 beta release from today. If you're not already signed up to beta test, you can do it at www.captureone.com/beta.

  • FirstName LastName
    Mar 17, 2026

    AIノイズリダクションは、CaptureOneに欠けた大きなピースです。

    この機能が実装され、CaptureOneがより完璧なソフトウェアとなることを望みます。

  • Phrank 303
    Feb 22, 2026

    I work a lot in nightlife events and even with the best lenses I have to push the ISO up.

    I'm already testing Lightroom’s Denoise features, but got more used to Capture One and prefer the colour management.

    I still have hope it will make it soon. @Capture One, Come On!

  • Santiago Martinez
    Feb 9, 2026
    • Create in Mar 19 2023 - almost 3 years - 742 votes - but the answer its Future consideration...

    • The future arrived a while ago.

  • Fitz Michael
    Jan 27, 2026

    still behind, make it happen.

  • Ben Broomfield
    Jan 21, 2026

    Hi C1, please can this be priority feature to be updated? I'm a Fujifilm mainly event shooter and have to run all my images through Topaz after I've exported. Just feels like it should be implemented. Lightroom has caught up.

  • Fred Greaves
    Jan 21, 2026

    I love that the only time Capture One responds to rebuke us for posting links showing how the noise reduction is so lacking in C1, but makes no move to improve it. I like all of the new filtering options, retouching and all that, but would hope that they would put effort into improving BASIC functions that have not seemed to have any meaningful refresh for a long time (NOISE REDUCTION!!!)

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this makes it so I don’t have to use external tools to do the noise reduction when I’m doing high iso shoots at events that are quite dark, which happens at corporate and general event photography quite often.
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