5 Great Ways To Eliminate Image Noise At The Source

high noise / low noise Noise happens. There is always some degree of noise present in any electronic device that receives or transmits a signal. Though noise is unavoidable, it can become so small relative to the signal that it is no longer visible. It’s...

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Noise Reduction With Noiseware – The Best Photoshop Plug-In

Before & After Noiseware Who doesn’t have noise? If you don’t run into noise in your digital images, at least once in a while, you may not be pushing the envelope enough. You can photograph long after dark; if you haven’t tried it, you owe...

Reducing Noise with Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom

Lightroom’s Detail panel Reducing noise in Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom (the controls and results are identical) is easy. The Detail panel provides tools to reduce two kinds of noise – Luminance (light and dark) and Color. Results can be targeted with the Detail slider...

Resurrecting Detail In Challenging Images With Photoshop

Before channel blending After channel blending Big problems call for big solutions. Blending channels is a powerful color adjustment strategy that can handle even the biggest challenges. Color adjustment occurs by modifying the tonal structure of individual grayscale channels. Typically, the information within them is...

Using Color Management For Color Adjustment – Synthetic Profiles

       Synthetic Profiles – Big Change Small Price How can you change the appearance of a digital image without changing the numbers that assign the colors in it? Change what those numbers mean, by changing image’s ICC profile. Using abstract or synthetic profiles, you...

Photoshop’s Color Lookup Makes Complex Color Effects Easy

  Original Image The Color Lookup Pastel8Hues creates very strong color effects. Any Color Lookup adjustment layer can be modified with Blend Modes.  The Color Lookup Adjustment Originally designed for color grading film and video, Photoshop’s Color Lookup feature offers novel ways to adjust color...

See Color In New Ways With Photoshop’s Gradient Maps

Before and after the Gradient Map      Whether used subtly or dramatically, Photoshop’s Gradient Map color adjustment tool can open up new ways of seeing and working with color for any artist. Photoshop’s Gradient Map assigns new colors to existing brightness values. With it,...

Photoshop’s Match Color May Change The Way You See

Source Target   Final Effect Photoshop’s Match Color   Little explored and capable of opening up whole new frontiers in color adjustment, Photoshop’s Match Color is a tool every user should be aware of – even if it’s only to know what’s possible. There are three...

Use Adobe Lens Profiles To Improve Your Image Quality

Do you wish you could improve the quality of the images your lenses deliver after exposure? You can, using software. Adobe’s Lens Corrections feature uses a digital image file’s EXIF metadata about camera and lens to automate cures for standard lens distortions, including geometric distortion,...