Comments on: Reduce Camera Noise in 3 Easy Photoshop Steps

By: Joanna

Joanna — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:08:54 +0000

I use Photoimpact, and I’ve found an alternative if painstaking way to remove noise from areas where noise filters aren ‘t effective: zoom in really close to the noisy pixels and use the color replacement tool to replace pixels of a certain tone to that of their ‘noiseless’ very-similar-toned neighbours. It’s a last resort measure, and only works in small selective areas, otherwise it looks too ‘plastic’ or painty..
As far as general noise removal goes, I’ve found Neat Image to be the best.

By: publikaccion

publikaccion — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:12:58 +0000

very cool technique

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:50:16 +0000

Noise reducing software does sound like the best option (although I haven’t had the chance to try any yet). I’ve been doing something similar to the process that you wrote about, though. I’ve been converting my image to Lab mode, then applying a Gaussian blur to the a and b channels (about 20%, I think). This produces a similar sort of effect in that it modifies the colour while preserving the luminosity. Once that’s done, I convert the image back to RGB for anything else that I have to do.

By: Karen Stuebing

Karen Stuebing — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:18:44 +0000

I agree with the previous poster. Neat Image is an affordable plug in for Photoshop and works beautifully, If the image is too soft, you can just fade the result until you get what you want.

By: Ev_d

Ev_d — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:08:25 +0000

I just downloaded Noiseware – WOW!!! I am so happy to have found this. Thanks for all the tips!

By: MaryD

MaryD — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:57:02 +0000

While it doesn’t remove the noise, increasing the contrast level can hide it to some degree–that is, so long as the photo suits higher contrast.

By: Curtis Wallis

Curtis Wallis — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:42:28 +0000

Great technique. This always comes into play with me on the large scale prints. I do alot with images over 4 feet and the color grain always gets to me.

By: Gbenga Loveeyes Images

Gbenga Loveeyes Images — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:34:48 +0000

Just tried it. The result is amazing. I have been using the filter reduce grains for this. Thanks.

By: David Paul

David Paul — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:07:23 +0000

I use JASC PaintShop – it has a filter called “Edge Preserving Smooth” that works very well!

By: Catherine

Catherine — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:42:29 +0000

I am busy scanning some old slides of my father’s and the results can be quite noisy, particularly on the older ones (some are about 50 years old). I am really keen to try this technique and see if it helps, thank you.