Reducing luminance and color noise

…In this movie, we'll focus in on how we can work with our noise reduction sliders.…Which allow us to deal with luminance or brightness noise, and also color noise.…In order to understand how these sliders work, what…I'm going to do is apply some bad sharpening.…I want overexaggerate the sharpening, so here I'll…click and drag the Sharpening slider to the right.…I'll also bring out my detail amount here and then drop down the masking.…And the reason I'm doing this is because sometimes…when you exaggerate something in Lightroom, or in Photoshop, for…that matter, you can teach yourself how the various…controls work, which is what we're going to do here.…

When it comes to noise reduction, we definitely want to…apply a certain amount of luminance and color noise reduction.…Almost every image needs at least a little amount of noise reduction.…So here this…photograph, it's a pretty clean image.…It's a good capture, a high end camera, yet still we had some of that noise…in the background and we can tackle or get rid of that noise one of two ways.…