A Master Class On Lightroom Denoise!
This video is a master class on Lightroom Denoise! If you want to see my techniques for making ISO 12,800 look like ISO 400, you’re gonna love this! It’s the BEST way to fix a noisy photo!
In fact, I think the advanced techniques at the end of the video allow you to make your images look better than any third-party app – just using Lightroom!
In this video, we’ll take a really deep dive, and I’ll show you everything you need to know to get the most from Lightroom Denoise. We’ll talk about the kinds of images that work best, how the Donoise tool works, and some advanced techniques beyond just the simple Denoise dialog.
In fact, in my experience, the advanced techniques featured towards the end of this video preserve detail better than any third-party software I’ve tried while giving you the best possible noise reduction.
It’s the best 45 minutes you’ll spend on post processing!
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Dear Steve, Thanks for another great session. I’m a hobbiest and I’ve read all your books for nikon or general photograpghy. They’ve all been great and very useful. I noticed on your last example in this session that when you selected the background; you said we could decrease texture, possibly decrease clarity, apply noise reduction, or decrease sharpening. When you changed the sharpening I noticed some posterization just above the bird’s beak which I hadn’t noticed with the other methods. I’ve noticed some posterization occasionally in my images in the dark areas. I shoot raw. Is there anyway to avoid… Read more »
The YT video compression did that more than my method 🙂 They lower the bit depth and it posterizes. It didn’t in Lightroom. I also pushed it a little hard for demonstration purposes. Normally, I leave a little noise in there to avoid posterization.
Thanks for putting this together Steve! I’ve used some of these techniques, but it was helpful to understand the correct order in which to apply them. I sometimes shoot JPGs using the Nikon Pre-release Capture feature. Since the LR DeNoise feature does not support JPGs, you have a recommendation on how to use the manual noise reduction for this case?
Great video ! One comment : I find lightroom/ACR masking can not only miss large areas (like the tail in your video), but also get a little confused on fine areas around boundaries of a subject – like individual hair/feather detail around the boundaries of a bird or mammal. I find unless you are very careful to look for this and deal with it, adding noise reduction or reducing texture, to what you think is the background, can mush up some of these fine details. In general, I find dealing with this too much work, so generally avoid using lightroom/ACR… Read more »
I’ve found the same. My intention when I recored this for the series was to just show the very basics here because at this point I would not have covered masking. Once I got to masking, I was going to mention this portion of the series and how you can be more careful with the sections and the dangers you sometimes run into.
Thanks !
I would be interested to know if any of your techniques can be used in PS as I am not a Lightroom user. Have to admit I have not finished your video yet but have noticed so far that there is no masking or the ability to enhance in PS. I really like what you are doing in Lightroom and would love to be able to apply it in PS. Thank you for sharing your tips they are always extremely helpful.
If you’re using the current version of ACR, you can do this. However, there’s no direct Photoshop way to do it.
Yes I use ACR but when I was watching your video I looked there but as I said I didn’t see the masking for enhance features however thanks for replying and thanks for all your wonderful videos.
Is it the current version of ACR?
Yes it is.
Steve-your impact on my photographic journey remains overwhelming. Thanks again for everything. And my thanks again to the magnificent Rose who helps you find the cameras.
Thanks so much!
Thanks, Steve. This was very good and useful!
Thank you , Steve! As always I have learned so much from all you share! You are so generous!
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Thank you Steve! This Denoise masterclass was exactly what I needed – and was excellent as is all of your training. Thank you so much.
Great! More on Developpement in Lightroom. Small chunk of that 100 hour material.
Will have to watch this a couple times but it was great
Thanks 🙂
Steve, this is wonderful. I was very close on what you taught, but a key difference will make the improvements I am looking for! You are the best! Also…I am curious about Focus Shift, and I have a Nikon D610–is that ‘long’ for D6? (as put in the description)
Thanks again for another wonderful video!
(I meant your Focus Shifting video)
Thanks for your interest! Sadly, nope, the D6 is a different camera and the D610 does not support focus shift shooting.
Thank you. Stuck with old equipment LOL.
Excellent video. Thanks Steve.
Thanks!