Tip #81: It's Noisy, Now What

It is rare that you take a photo and not have some noise present. There are all kinds of noise or speckles in photos. Removing noise is usually the first step in my editing workflow. Here's how I remove some of the noise, using the Capture NX2 editor.

1. Load the image and zoom-in to 100% (CTRL-ALT-0 is the keyboard short-cut).
2. Choose the Noise Reduction tool.
3. Choose Better Quality method and Edge Noise Reduction.
4. Leave the sharpness slider set on 5.
5. Adjust the Intensity slider to the right just until the image noise is reduced.
6. View the entire image (click on the hand icon).
7. Continue with additional edits or save the image.

Before noise reduction:


After noise reduction:




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