Photograph Noise Elimination

Photograph Noise Elimination
Photography and Text By Jaybee © All rights reserved.

Original - No In Camera Sharpening.

My default settings in Power Retouche Sharpness

After Sharpening - Before Neat Image.

My default settings in Neat Image

Noise - societies... new Armageddon - it's around us 24/7. We live our lives now with a constant background thump. I get frustrated that I can often do little about it.

Digital photography brings yet more noise into our lives, BUT this time I can take full control and tame the speckled beast trying to embed itself into my images. I use two weapons in my fight against digital noise. Power Retouche Sharpness Filter and Neat Image.

Jaybee Photography © Jaybee They are cheap to buy and though neither are easy to master both can be learned fairly quickly. You may be content to simply use the built in presets or save a few custom ones of your own that work on your images. The image I have chosen as an example is a small section of a photograph take at ISO1600 to emphasis the noise levels. The settings shown in the screen shots of Power Retouche Sharpness and Neat Image are ones I created and saved as my defaults. If you too feel noise is taking over your everyday life then fight back (at least on your computer) and give both of these filters a try.

My Outdoor Eyes Photography Blog
Beautiful Common Eider At Rock Harbor On Cape Cod.

It’s always fun to stop by Rock Harbor to see if there are any photo ops. There usually are! This Common Eider and his wife were swimming about the harbor, more interested in preening than fishing. Beautiful birds, don’t you think? Such a difference male to female…

œRetro Photograph Of Coast Guard Station In Eastham On Cape Cod.

Phil and I were experimenting with our new cameras and took several “retro” photographs of the Coast Guard Station. We couldn’t decide which one we like better. Which one do you like better?

Gorgeous Skies At The Salt Pond In Eastham On Cape Cod.

The skies were magnificent as we hiked the Salt Pond Trail, also known as Nauset Marsh Trail, the other day. I took a horizontal photograph and thought that it looked pretty. The sky and clouds were spectacular. And then I took a vertical one. Wow! What do you think?