June 26, 2008
Noise Removal in Lightroom
A recent ISO accident led to the creation of this little video tutorial on noise reduction in Lightroom. While it doesn’t offer as much control as dedicated software like Neat Image or Noiseware, it’s still quite usable. The one great thing about it, is that once you’re happy with the results on one image, you can batch it to the rest of the shoot, far quicker than with the dedicated packages. Click here to watch the MP4 video.
Wow, you’re much braver with the luminance NR than I ever am — I’m gonna have to play with that a bit more. Thanks!
In this case it needed that much, at least visually. The issue is that it softens things, so you need to sharpen without resharpening the noise, hence using the mask to sharpen only the edges.
I doubt that that noise would be noticed on a print. Would it?
Thanks..very much Sean…I always enjoy your tutorials as well as your inspiration.noise was something I was just learning to live with
David
Adias, even on a 5X7 print, the noise is immediately obvious.
Thanks David.
Very nice tutorial. Thanks for producing and posting it. Pretty slick using the 2 beta to include the little zoom window in the Detail section (just above Noise Reduction)!
I was able to immediately use this information to improve a low-light shot I’d taken. And from now on, I’ll always reduce the color noise reduction from the default, then increase as needed.
Thanks!
Hey Stew, I always felt the default was a little aggressive, so I’m glad to see others agree.
Is anyone else having problems with this file? I’ve downloaded it twice, but it causes Quicktime to quit unexpectedly. I thought this was because I’d just run Apple’s Software Updater (for 10.4.11, Safari and iTunes), but Quicktime is playing other MP4 downloads OK, and I can’t see anyone else having this problem on Apple forums. I’d really like to watch the tutorial – hope you can help.