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Looking at noise reduction

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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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