LongLensPhotography
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Just a quick tip really...
Since the last update there is a new masking tool called "Luminance Range" and that's right it can be incredibly useful for various purposes.
In this case noise is lurking in the shadows, not highlights and hopefully not even midtones. So a fairly noisy or push-processed file does not need an overall aggressive NR setting (if you are lazy and don't do masking in PS the old way). Instead just apply Luminance range to shadows as appropriate and select stronger NR setting. High MP cameras really benefit from negative texture adjustment, at your own discretion. Obviously if dark areas have little fine detail you could also reduce sharpening a little. It all helps.
The very darkest part could also do with some desaturation for particularly nasty examples with lots of colour noise.
This seems to get even better results than DeNOISE AI in some cases. It just depends on a case by case basis, where the latter can be just by far too aggressive.
Since the last update there is a new masking tool called "Luminance Range" and that's right it can be incredibly useful for various purposes.
In this case noise is lurking in the shadows, not highlights and hopefully not even midtones. So a fairly noisy or push-processed file does not need an overall aggressive NR setting (if you are lazy and don't do masking in PS the old way). Instead just apply Luminance range to shadows as appropriate and select stronger NR setting. High MP cameras really benefit from negative texture adjustment, at your own discretion. Obviously if dark areas have little fine detail you could also reduce sharpening a little. It all helps.
The very darkest part could also do with some desaturation for particularly nasty examples with lots of colour noise.
This seems to get even better results than DeNOISE AI in some cases. It just depends on a case by case basis, where the latter can be just by far too aggressive.