Lightroom 3 Presets for Punch and NR?

MDalby

I have been using the default preset "General - Punch" and using Noise Ninja for my NR. I think I am going to take the plunge and just use Lightroom for NR. Do you Lightroom 3 users have a preset that you have found to work for punch and NR?

Any NR settings that you have found are best for a general settings?

Thanks,

MD

aj986s

I don't have a specific set of parameters or preset for noise reduction in LR. But I have to say that the NR function(s) in LR3 is MUCH improved over the earlier version.

kurtw

MDalby wrote: »

I have been using the default preset "General - Punch" and using Noise Ninja for my NR. I think I am going to take the plunge and just use Lightroom for NR. Do you Lightroom 3 users have a preset that you have found to work for punch and NR?

Any NR settings that you have found are best for a general settings?

Thanks,

MD

It depends on the photo (especially when it comes to any color adjustments and on what the camera did if it's a JPG). But assuming a RAW file, exposed correctly and/or having a good blackpoint and whitepoint already set, I often use some variation of the following as a starting point:



Of course, a lot of things will determine how you will handle noise reduction. But if I just have a little bit of mid-ISO noise to clean up, something really light like the above seems to work. I'm so happy to have good NR in LR3 finally.

YMMV

Qarik

aye, LR3 eliminates the need for stand alone NR sw now..it is very good now. Forget a preset..just play with it and do what looks good. It could vary from shot to shot anyway.

MDalby

kurtw wrote: »

It depends on the photo (especially when it comes to any color adjustments and on what the camera did if it's a JPG). But assuming a RAW file, exposed correctly and/or having a good blackpoint and whitepoint already set, I often use some variation of the following as a starting point:



Of course, a lot of things will determine how you will handle noise reduction. But if I just have a little bit of mid-ISO noise to clean up, something really light like the above seems to work. I'm so happy to have good NR in LR3 finally.

YMMV

Thank you for sharing your settings.

MD

colourbox

Just keep in mind that applying a lens profile can really slow down some edits like local adjustments, so you may not want it on every single image. Also, the +10 luminance smoothing is a good default, but...no color noise reduction?

kurtw

colourbox wrote: »

Just keep in mind that applying a lens profile can really slow down some edits like local adjustments, so you may not want it on every single image. Also, the +10 luminance smoothing is a good default, but...no color noise reduction?

Thanks I didn't realize the performance effect of the lens profiles.

I believe that a light default color noise reduction is already applied to my raw images (+25).

Thanks

WernerG

I downloaded a series of still life test shots (raw files) from the reviews for my camera from the Imaging Resources site, one for each major ISO step. I then created a series of Noise Reduction and Sharpening presets in Lr from the test shots. They are starting points, not final values, but they are usually close to the final and reduce the time to takes to get to the end. Sharpening is more variable because it is more subject dependent, but NR is usually quite good.