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How to Reduce Digital Noise in a Photograph
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How to Reduce Digital Noise in a Photograph

on Jan 4th 2012 with 22 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 11 Minutes

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

With the release of Photoshop CS5 there have been substantial improvements to the noise reduction tools found inside of Camera Raw. Now, it’s possible to reduce noise while maintaining clarity and sharpness throughout the image. In this tutorial we are going to be taking a jpeg image into Camera Raw and fixing both the color and luminance noise that can be found in the image. Let’s get started!

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Michael Rather is the Founder and CEO of The Digital Photography Connection, a training resource for professional and amateur photographers. Rather is also the author of numerous Photoshop and Lightroom training DVDs and online courses, and is the host of Photoshop for Digital Photographers, Lightroom for Digital Photographers, and Photography Quick Tips.  

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  • Madalincmc

    Ok thats really nice but f you dont have a camera raw file format that what you can do to reduce the noise?

    • Steve

      you don’t need the raw file. Watch the video again, this is all done using jpg files.

      • Madalincmc

        Yes you are right, i skipped the first part of the video and didnt know you can oped jpeg images like camera raw.

    • Remy Cote

      Clearly you didn’t watch the whole video.

  • http://www.equotemd.com Michael

    Really enjoyed the tutorial. I have been interested in learning more and more about how to edit your own personal digital photos and this specific tutorial has been one I have been looking for. It was excellent and now it is time for me to practice! Thanks!

  • Aeonx

    Great!

  • Andrew

    If you set Camera RAW to open jpgs and also tif files automatically when loading them into Photoshop it does help.This could be why Madalincmc was confused. since Camera RAW does not automatically open them by default.

  • http://leonking.com.ua leonking

    This very interesting!!! Thanks

  • aloykatos

    What camera was this picture taken with? This too much noise for ISO 800 in any camera.

  • http://funalicious.com funalicious

    This worked great! I had an image I needed to print very large but it was too grainy when I upped the revolution. This fixed it. Thank you!

  • http://www.alkhubr.net y&k

    Great

    This very interesting!.

  • barry

    I am very happy that i dont have an ‘oopen assss’.

  • Tyke

    Too bad the photo is overprocessed to start with.

  • Daya

    gud tutorial…………………..!!!!!!!

  • Spreng

    I love the beautiful picture! The area looks familiar, is it Papago Park?

  • http://souravchakraborty.co.nr/ Sourav Chakraborty

    Would love to see a non-video tutorial for this!

  • http://www.pretut.com/ pretut

    thx nice tutorial

  • http://beklemeyin.net Beklemeyin

    thx nice tutorial

  • http://www.samuelorf.com Samuel Orf

    Thank you for the tutorial.

    I like how you say “Cammeraw.” hehe.

  • Sara

    The way u talk makes me feel like a 1st-grader lool, well I guess I AM a PS 1st-grader x))
    Thank you for this tutorial, this is the first tutorial on removing noise that I’ve seen that actually helped my photo, and helped me understand the meaning of some terms in PS :)

  • alireza

    very good

  • Andy Blablabla

    Thanks for the tutor