Comments on: How to Do Noise Reduction in Lightroom (Step By Step)

By: Namgay

Namgay — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:37:12 +0000

Great tutorial

By: hamkumar

hamkumar — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 06:34:46 +0000

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By: catherinethebrave

catherinethebrave — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 15:46:00 +0000

Great article! I am struggling with photos from the conference, where background was lighted properly but stage with speaker was dark because of the better quality of what was on the screen. That’s why I had to use higher ISO and the photos have lots of noise. This artile will help me with editing!

By: Sebastián Méndez

Sebastián Méndez — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 23:50:00 +0000

such sloooooooow video.

By: Theo Lubbe

Theo Lubbe — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 16:54:00 +0000

For LR-based noise reduction I find I personally prefer using, for Luminance and Colour respectively:

25/50/0
100/50/50

There’s still going to be some noise left, but to me it looks closer to grain on film without any excessive smoothing of areas nor introduction of noise-reduction ‘jaggies’ anywhere which have to be dealt with manually (unless you push the thresholds further, blurring everything into an ugly soup). Overall image detail is retained and the noise which may be sharpened if applying an unsharp mask in PS later isn’t as bad.

Of course, if you’ve access to PS anyway you could also use two versions of your image; a more heavy-handed version and one which has a more restrained noise reduction applied, then using layers you mask in the NR where you want it and don’t where you don’t. I think employing luminosity masks to denoise shadows (where detail will be lessened anyway) a bit so they don’t appear quite as muddy may work well, though it’s only something I’m thinking of and not something I’ve actually tried myself yet.

By: Chris Tucker

Chris Tucker — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 20:35:00 +0000

I like the app, Define2 for noise reduction in LR or PS

By: Gonçalo

Gonçalo — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 11:48:00 +0000

Great article indeed, but I have a doubt… Taking into account that sharpening can possibly increase noise, should one leave out the sharpening step (with images that have a big amount of noise) thus lowering the amount of noise reduction used. Or should sharpening be used nevertheless, and then use noise reduction, even if with a higher amount?
Thanks

By: Orton

Orton — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:38:00 +0000

In reply to Dennis Ederer. why don't you shut up

By: Zullu

Zullu — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:06:00 +0000

how about banding … that ugly jagged transition from grey to a light grey for example … how do you remove banding without adding noise to the “gradient”

By: Benn Brown

Benn Brown — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 01:26:00 +0000

In reply to Raghavendra Kopalle. this will work but its purely psychological:) the noise is still there, you just cant enlarge as much as the full size so the image "appears" to have less noise:)