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Reducing Camera Noise.

Dec 17, 2009 Tips & Techniques

I came across these three simple Photoshop steps to reduce the camera noise in your photos. This can be very helpful as I do have quite a number of ‘noisy’ pictures since I am not so fond of using flash. Most of the time, I would rather use a higher ISO than use a flash. Anyway, for the steps.

Step 1
Duplicate the background layer. You can do this by simply dragging the background layer into the New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers window.

Step 2
Change the Layer Blending Mode from ‘Normal’ to ‘Color’.

Step 3
Apply Gaussian Blur Filter from the Filter menu. The amount of blur will determine the amount of reduction. Be careful not to over-blur because adding too much blur will de-saturate the color information in your image.

You can read more about this at http://digital-photography-school.com/.