Practical Photoshop

COMMON PHOTO PROBLEMS and have to fix them in Photoshop

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1 MY PHOTOS ARE TOO NOISY

If your high-ISO images are plagued by unsightly noise, there are two excellent features in Camera Raw and Photoshop that can clean things up…

1 DETAIL PANEL

The Detail Panel in Camera Raw/Lightroom is the easiest tool Adobe offers for noise reduction. The Luminance slider tackles grainy image noise, so start here first. Increasing Luminance reduces the grain, but at the expense of image detail. So it’s always a balancing act between noise, detail and sharpness.

2 REDUCE NOISE FILTER

Found in Photoshop under Filter > Noise > Reduce Noise, this tool offers similar noise reduction controls to the Detail Panel, but with the added option (under Advanced) to apply noise reduction to individual color channels. So you can cycle through the red, green and blue channels (if you’re working in the RGB color space) and assess the amount of noise on each, then apply the noise reduction accordingly.

3 LUMINOSITY MASKING

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