EdT3 Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I am an extreme beginner with any software of this type. I have an image I took from an iPhone 6 video, and I am trying to make it less grainy. The video was rather dark to begin with, so when I brighten the picture it becomes very noisy.I tried using all of the denoise filters I could find, including Live Filter Layers and just using Filters, including Denoise and Deinterlace, since the picture was taken from a video. None of the filters seem to do anything at all, as far as noise or graininess goes. I have a new iMac with 24 gb of memory. I looked through most of the tutorials that had anything to do with either noise or graininess but I can't seem to apply those methods to the picture. What am I doing wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted January 26, 2016 Staff Share Posted January 26, 2016 Hi EdT3, Welcome to the forum. Is it possible for you to send me a copy of the image so that I can take a look. Regards, Darren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted January 26, 2016 Staff Share Posted January 26, 2016 Make sure you apply the noise reduction to the layer with the image on it. Still catches me out sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdT3 Posted January 26, 2016 Author Share Posted January 26, 2016 Hi EdT3, Welcome to the forum. Is it possible for you to send me a copy of the image so that I can take a look. Regards, Darren Thanks for the reply. I have attached the photo, let me know what you think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted January 26, 2016 Staff Share Posted January 26, 2016 I used the Denoise filter from the Filter > Noise menu with the Luminance Denoise slider set to just below halfway with the Extreme option ticked and it cleared the image quite nicely. I have attached a screen shot of the Denoise settings that I used as well as the afphoto file that I created. Regards, Darren post-26343-0-69308300-1453806824.afphoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdT3 Posted January 27, 2016 Author Share Posted January 27, 2016 I used the Denoise filter from the Filter > Noise menu with the Luminance Denoise slider set to just below halfway with the Extreme option ticked and it cleared the image quite nicely. I have attached a screen shot of the Denoise settings that I used as well as the afphoto file that I created. Regards, Darren Thanks for the help. Looking at the picture, what other corrections or refinements would you make? I brightened the picture using Levels, I also experimented with brightness/ Contrast, but I preferred levels. I tried to sharpen the image, but did not get results I liked. Not sure I was using the different sharpening tools correctly. Thanks for your help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted January 28, 2016 Staff Share Posted January 28, 2016 You can also use the Exposure Adjustment layer and the Colour Balance Adjustment layer. EdT3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barninga Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 about sharpening, try applying the frequency separation filter, then duplicate the high frequency layer and change the duplicate's transparency: it's a simple method that often gives nice results. EdT3 and Madame 2 Quote take care, stefano Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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