Improving Your Images Step 3: Turning off the noise

Now comes the magic, when shooting in raw we can turn off the noise in an image in about 10 seconds.

Noise is created in an image when a pixel registers a colour that is not present. This will occur when either the ISO setting is high or when we under expose an image and then boost the exposure in post processing.

To turn off the image:
step 1. Click on the third tab on the right hand panel.
step 2. zoom the image to 200%
step 3. adjust the luminance and colour sliders in turn.

remember the point is to remove noise but keep the texture so don't over do it or the image will looked very polished.

step 4. When you are happy with the result we will open the image in Photoshop and then learn how to remove the dead pixels. 

Notice how the noise has disappeared but we still retain texture. The higher the ISO setting the more noise present so the more tweaking we need to do.


In the next blog we will use the main Photoshop software to remove the dead pixels.





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