Reducing Noise in Adobe Camera Raw

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Nice tutorial but the sound is awful. Thanks anyway

Thanks for the comment, and my apologies about the sound. The file I submitted was fine, so I’ll check with the web site folks and see if we can figure out what happened.

Nice tutorial, it is very usefull for Photoshop cs3 users..,

Thanks for taking the time to comment and I’m glad you found it helpful!

Really helpful instructions, but honestly I couldn’t see any of the noise in the video. I suspect the video compression is washing it all away.

How does noise reduction affect the softness of the overall image

Trond-
Thanks, and yes, the video compression does take out a lot of the detail. I wish it were possible to show larger, high-res examples.

Hi John-

Basically, the filters designed to reduce noise (found under Filter>Noise), use various methods to smooth and/or blur details on a pixel-by-pixel basis in order to get rid of some of the digital noise. Putting all this blurring and smoothing together tends to soften the edges, details, etc. of an image, giving the overall image a softer appearance.