Noise Problem

[sergio2263]

Originally Posted by MatthewMarshall

whats wrong with a little noise. Older images are ok to have noise, looking at the examples so far, all are way over edited. Yes its ok to get rid of small smudges and dirt marks, but remember photos have grain. People try to over correct an image, because they want it to look flawless. Its ok to have a little grain. when you get rid of grain the image losses all its charm.

Everyone has a right to an opinion, but there seems to be a little confusion here, on my part I didn't think there was a grain problem with this image, what i can see is a blown out pixel problem where the photo is way to highlighted in some areas and that's where i've tried to fixed it. if you look closely to the original the photo doesn't seems to have grainy problem.

anyway everyone to their own, no hard feelings


cheers

helen

[Kraellin]

i had a go at this also. interesting picture. i started this with a high contrast curves layer and lowered the highs just a touch to reduce the brightness on her face a bit.

the rest was mostly my standard fare, clone, airbrush and push/smudge

[Digiboy]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

i had a go at this also. interesting picture. i started this with a high contrast curves layer and lowered the highs just a touch to reduce the brightness on her face a bit.

the rest was mostly my standard fare, clone, airbrush and push/smudge

Thanks Craig, very nice work. This is why I class this site as my favorite retouching site, if you have a problem you just have to ask and everyone does their best to help you.
My thanks to everyone.


Lee

[Kraellin]

you're welcome, lee

and yes, we do try to contribute (and show off) to each other

[chillin]

I introduced a different noise level on separate channels & then worked with
denoising software. At the end I applied some level adjustments.

[Digiboy]

Originally Posted by chillin

I introduced a different noise level on separate channels & then worked with
denoising software. At the end I applied some level adjustments.

That is a very good result. I would never have thought of adding noise only to remove it. I have an awful lot to learn!!
What noise removal software do you use? I have tried Noise Ninja and Tiffens software and get ok results (could get better results if I knew what I was doing with them, as I said a lot to learn etc) but I am always up to trying new plugins. Having said that the noise filter in CS3 isn't bad IMHO, although that could be because its easy to use.
Thanks again to everybody for all their help, it really is appreciated

Lee

[pieohpah]

I had a go at it!

I'm used to PhotoShop but this time I had to do with Gimp and Neat Image.
All in all:
* Levels, used threshold to see where the darkest and lightest parts where to set the black/white points in levels. Adjusted the gray point as well.
* Curves in an ever so slight s-curve.
* Neat Image to clean it up
* Very lousy job from me on the clone stamp to get rid of the remaining specs. I could have spent a lot more time here.
* And a little unsharp mask to finish it off.

/Peter

[Kraellin]

welcome to RP, Pieohpah and thanks for submitting

[Digiboy]

Originally Posted by pieohpah

I had a go at it!

I'm used to PhotoShop but this time I had to do with Gimp and Neat Image.
All in all:
* Levels, used threshold to see where the darkest and lightest parts where to set the black/white points in levels. Adjusted the gray point as well.
* Curves in an ever so slight s-curve.
* Neat Image to clean it up
* Very lousy job from me on the clone stamp to get rid of the remaining specs. I could have spent a lot more time here.
* And a little unsharp mask to finish it off.

/Peter

Sorry I have only just got round to responding to your post, I had a bit of an accident with my car and I have been somewhat preoccupied with trying to get it sorted out .
I myself am having a look at Gimp software just put Ubuntu on an old laptop and I am now trying to learn where everything has moved to. I have to say though I like Ubuntu and Gimp looks really interesting to me. (although it will some getting used to I think)
Thank you for your take on the photo I will look at Neat image next.
So much to do and so little time to play

Thanks again to everyone
Lee