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Looking at noise reduction - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Inkjet Printing for Photographers
Looking at noise reduction
Noise, of course, is the speckly stuff that can appear in your image, especially when you're shooting at high ISO and usually there's more noise in your shadows than your other areas. Noise reduction is grouped here into the Detail tab in Camera Raw alongside sharpening. And in most image editing applications you'll find noise reduction and sharpening grouped together, because there are operations that you typically want to perform at the same time. The reason being, noise reduction usually has a softening effect on your image because the way noise is reduced is to apply very purposeful localized blurs to your image. Also sharpening can exaggerate noise, so you want to be balancing your sharpening efforts with your noise reduction efforts. I am not actually going to spend much time on noise reduction in this course, because these days if you're working with a new camera you're probably not facing a lot of bad noise issues. Today's SLRs and even today's higher-end point and shoot…
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Understanding how sharpening works3m 18s
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Sharpening in JPEG mode1m 26s
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Exploring sharpening workflows3m 47s
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Sharpening in Camera Raw6m 17s
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Looking at noise reduction1m 46s
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Sharpening output with Smart Sharpen11m 52s
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Understanding selective sharpening4m 25s
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Sharpening through an edge mask7m 17s
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Reviewing high-pass sharpening4m 30s
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Applying aggressive sharpening8m 53s
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Exploring advanced sharpening techniques9m 7s
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Exploring the Print dialog11m 35s
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Proofing at smaller sizes3m 3s
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