ChatGPT does Presets

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I asked ChatGPT to create film emulations for use in Lightroom, for Agfa CT-18 and Agfa CT-21 (my beloved slide films from yesteryear). I was presented with comprehensive recipes, which work (at least, to my eyes). Here is CT-18. BASIC PANEL Exposure: 0.00 (adjust per image) Contrast: -10 Highlights: -20 Shadows: +10 Whites: +5 Blacks: -5 PRESENCE Texture: 0 Clarity: …

DeNoise software

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I have been using Topaz DeNoise software occasionally (though I use Topaz Sharpen a lot). Both are billed as ‘AI’, and both give good results. In the past few days Adobe have added ‘DeNoise’ to Lightroom, again billing it as AI. I decided to do a quick and dirty side-by-side test. Yesterday I took an against the light photograph of …