Noise reduction to the rescue

- [Instructor] Noise looks like pixel grain, … and too much noise will make an image look grainy and soft. … Let's click to zoom in on this image … so that we can see the noise that's here. … The amount of noise you find in a photo … will depend a lot on the quality of the camera sensor … and how much light was available during the capture. … Underexposed images and images captured at a high ISO … are especially susceptible to lots of noise. … We can use noise reduction … combined with some image sharpening to rescue a noisy photo. … First let's look at the info for this photo … so that you can see the camera data … and the high ISO this was shot at. … This icon in the lower right or the I on your keyboard, … will take you to the Info panel. … We can see this was captured with a Canon 7D … at an ISO of 1,600, which is pretty high for that camera. … To get to the noise reduction … that's found in the Detail panel inside of Edit. … I'm going to jump there with a Command + 4. … You could use a Control + 4 on a Windows. …