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Noise removal using stacks - Affinity Photo Tutorial
From the course: Advanced Affinity Photo for Desktop
Noise removal using stacks
- [Instructor] Here's a picture of a piece of art work that I took with my iPhone. It was in a rather poorly lit location. When we zoom in, you can see there's a lot of noise in the background. And you can see that especially around this screw that holds it to the wall. Affinity Photo offers a fix for this in the form of stacks. And it works by taking several pictures of the same scene and then averaging out the noise. Go to the file menu and choose new stack. And this dialogue appears. Click the add button, and select all of the images that you've taken of the same scene. Here are all the thumbnails. We'll choose automatically align images, because the camera may have moved slightly between takes. Click the OK button and it loads them all up and builds them into a stack. When we zoom in, we can see that all that noise in the background disappeared. But we're still left with the fine surface detail in the artwork. If we pop open the stack, we can select all but one of the images and…
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Converting images to black and white3m 41s
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Shadows and highlights2m 56s
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Boosting contrast with a Hard Light layer2m 42s
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Creating metal with Curves2m 49s
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Noise removal using stacks2m 14s
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Using Focus Merge2m 15s
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Strengthening shadows with Threshold3m 9s
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Creating a night effect with Curves3m 24s
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Shading on Hard Light layers3m 13s
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