On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Judging from the EXIF data it looks like these shots were taken as JPEGs and > posted pretty much without any further processing. Is that right?
That's odd... I wonder what flickr says about my exif data...? I pretty much always shoot raw, and they have been tweaked a bit in ACR/cs4... The ACR that > comes with PS CS4 is excellent, especially at getting rid of the kind of > colour noise I see in the darker tones of some of these shots. I find that > cranking the ACR colour de-noise slider and staying light (eg between 20-40) > on the b&w noise slider is the best bet and preserves sharpness. I'll double-check, but that sounds a lot like how I did it... Maybe I went heavier with the luminance NR....? Quite > honestly, most noise ain't worth worrying that much about (unless it's > periodic, like the very visible and annoying banding noise you'd get with > older sensors). I think there's too much pixel-peeping angst regarding > noise. If you can't see it when the image is printed, then that noise level > isn't a problem. > > If you still need an extra stop or so, upgrade to PS CS5 and use the > improved NR in the latest ACR. It's quite astounding. Or get Lightroom 3 > and you'll also have the latest ACR NR (its builtin to LR). Either of these > will allow you to crank the ISO higher and still get pretty clean output > after NR. It's heartening to see so many votes in favor of the Adobe NR. That, at least, makes things easier. :) Thanks for your input, Bruce. -c -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
