Im trying to see if there is away to clear up the quality of this picture some.. remove the grain looking look .. I dont know the correct terminology..lol.
but help from personal techiniques would be appreacite..

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m110/rodrigueztriplets/RICHES%20PART2/38850509.jpg

link to an image ..above

The grain look you are referring to is called "noise". There are plug-ins that do this such as Neat Image (http://www.neatimage.com/index.html), Noiseware (http://www.imagenomic.com/products.aspx), Noise Ninja (http://www.picturecode.com/) and Photoshop CS2 has a noise removal filter as well.

Neat Image has a free version for non-commerical use. Download Page (http://www.neatimage.com/download.html)

Noiseware also has a free version for non-commerical use. Download Page (http://www.imagenomic.com/download.aspx)

CS2 Noise Removal Tut (http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=photoshop&seqNum=248&rl=1)

You can also try removing the noise by switching to LAB mode and bluring the A and B channels. Here is a tut (http://tricks.onigo.net/wiki/index.php?n=Main.RemoveNoise).

Hope this helps!

I know I saw a noise reduction tutorial on the net months ago using some actionsin LAB mode...but I don't remeber where...the greyness is colour noise due toi high value of ISO,,,The tutorial made a nice result, not 100%, but nice...


Gerry

The "grain" is actually severe color noise. One run through with the noise filter Noiseware smooth it out but as you can see from attachment 1, there is a lot of residual yellow. I took the image into LAB and reduced the yellow resulting in at6tachment 2.
Regards, Murray

Hi there

As Paul says a good noise reduction program can help some.

I ran this example thru imagenomic software

Butch

I first copied the layer using screen blending mode and then used Neat Image.

Still with residual grain but I suspect more aggressive blurring would dull the image somewhat.