lighthound wrote:
You should never sharpen noise. Always apply your NR 1st, and then apply your sharpening. Actually sharpening should be the very last thing you do.
The masking fader is also your friend — use it to keep sharpening away from noise in solid areas and gradients.
A general comment about noise: Many people worry about it too much, I think. Certainly, you typically want to minimize it when you can, but in some kinds of photography noise is inevitable. It has always been with us in photography, and it isn't necessarily a bad thing to have some noise in a photograph. So the issue isn't "preventing" or "eliminating" noise, but rather in controlling it in light of the specific photograph and its usage.
lighthound wrote:
You should never sharpen noise. Always apply your NR 1st, and then apply your sharpening. Actually sharpening should be the very last thing you do.
The masking fader is also your friend — use it to keep sharpening away from noise in solid areas and gradients.
A general comment about noise. Many people worry about it too much, I think. Certainly, you typically want to minimize it when you can, but in some kinds of photography noise is inevitable. It has always been with us in photography, and it isn't necessarily a bad thing to have some noise in a photograph. So the issue isn't "preventing" or "eliminating" noise, but rather in controlling it in light of the specific photograph and its usage.
Sep 11, 2018 at 09:00 AM
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