The Essential Photoshop Masking Key Commands

There are at least two good reasons to become more familiar with Photoshop’s key commands related to masking. First, while many of these functions can be accessed through menu items, not all of them can; these features are essentially hidden to users who don’t know the key commands....

What In The World Is Detail Frequency ?

High frequency Medium Frequency Low Frequency Frequency is a term that’s being used more and more. That’s because new tools offer you more control over frequency than ever before. Noise reduction, sharpening, and HDR all offer unprecedented control over the look and feel of detail...

3 Things Creative Sharpening Can Do For Your Images

Of the three stages in a sound sharpening workflow – capture sharpening, creative sharpening, and output sharpening – creative sharpening is the stage that has the most impact. The goal of creative sharpening is to give an image a specific look and feel. There are...

Creative Image Sharpening – Double Pass Versus Hybrid

Before sharpening Unsharp Mask only Unsharp Mask and High Pass filters combined Different sharpening techniques make the world look different. A world of difference can be seen between the thin hard line of Unsharp Mask and the broad feathered line of High Pass Sharpening. Can...

The Advantages Of Sharpening With Photoshop’s Layers

Layers have Blend Modes and can be masked Double click a layer to activate its Blend If sliders   There are many reasons to use layers when sharpening your digital images. How do you do this? Simply duplicate the Background layer and sharpen the new layer....

How To Avoid 3 Types & 2 Kinds Of Noise

high noise / low noise column and row noise / severe under-exposure hot pixel noise / very long exposure or very hot conditions Bayer pattern noise / substantial under-exposure random noise / high ISO While it’s best to eliminate noise in images at the point...

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...