Killing the Grain. (And other artifacts.)

SimplyShaneSimplyShane Registered Users Posts: 153 Major grins
edited June 4, 2010 in Finishing School
I'll try to keep this short...

I'm very interested in learning how to improve a particular part of my editing technique, and that is noise management.

I've seen photos posted by others that are just amazingly crisp and smooth, and it goes beyond the lens or the camera. It's the way the image was processed...

And I am now wondering how I can do something similar. Something that retains detail, yet lacks noise **AFTER** editing. (As editing usually introduces quite a bit of grain and other distortions.)

Currently, I am using Topaz DeNoise and it works rather well, but the results always look just a touch "off." It doesn't retain enough detail...

If someone could tell me how to post images on here, I would show you...



Anyway, are there any thoughts on this? How do you guys approach this issue?? :scratch
---My Photography Homepage---

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bengford

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  • SimplyShaneSimplyShane Registered Users Posts: 153 Major grins
    edited June 4, 2010
    How could I forget this...


    If ANYONE could also tell me how the heck I get rid of that "upload" grain you get with sites like Facebook and the like, I would be eternally grateful...

    That annoys me more than anything else...
    ---My Photography Homepage---

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/bengford
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,967 moderator
    edited June 4, 2010
    The most important thing to avoid noise is to expose properly in the first place. Boosting levels in post will greatly accentuate whatever noise may be there. That said, I think it would be helpful if you could post some examples of the problems you are seeing along with complete EXIF data and a description of the processing you performed.
    My Pics
  • SimplyShaneSimplyShane Registered Users Posts: 153 Major grins
    edited June 4, 2010
    Richard wrote: »
    The most important thing to avoid noise is to expose properly in the first place. Boosting levels in post will greatly accentuate whatever noise may be there. That said, I think it would be helpful if you could post some examples of the problems you are seeing along with complete EXIF data and a description of the processing you performed.


    How do I post images??
    ---My Photography Homepage---

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/bengford
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,967 moderator
    edited June 4, 2010
    SimplyShane wrote: »
    How do I post images??
    How To Post on Dgrin
    My Pics
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