388 Smoothing away noise with the Mean stack mode

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…This week, we're gonna take…a bunch of noisy frames from a movie file.…In this case, as captured with a GoPro HERO4 at night,…but you could just as easily be using…a cellphone or what have you.…And we are going to blend them together…to create this noiseless still image right here.…And we'll be doing so using the Mean Stack Mode.…Now, when I say mean, I don't mean it's a jerk.…I mean we're running a statistical mean, as in an average.…

Now, a note about Stack Modes,…if you have Photoshop CC, you got them,…but if you're using Photoshop CS6 or earlier,…then you need the extended version of the software.…With that in mind, here,…let me show you exactly how it works.…Just to recap, this is an example…of an image that we're gonna start with,…and here's how we're going to eventually end,…making this one of the more…stunning Photoshop transformations,…and it's my pleasure to share it with you.…Now, the first thing we need to do is open the movie…by going up to the File menu and choosing the Open command.…