While today’s digital cameras are getting increasingly better at dealing with noise issues in digital images, noise is still very much part of everyday digital photography. Noise typically occurs when you photograph at high ISO settings such as 400, 800, 1600 etc.
I will not bore you with all the details of what noise is, how it occurs and the technical explanation of noise which includes difficult terms like sensor, signal, photosite, electron, matrix etc. Just google it and you’ll find lots of good explanations of noise.
Luckily there are several good software programs on the market which offer the tools required to limit the unsightly noise in your images (and this is really all you need to know about noise). One such program is Topaz DeNoise.
If you have read some of my recent posts you’ll know that I have been experimenting with the Topaz Photoshop Bundle over the past three weeks (which also includes the DeNoise plug-in).
I’ve mainly focused on the more fun and creative plug-ins which are part of the Topaz Photoshop Bundle, but today I thought I would share an example of what Topaz DeNoise can do to improve quality of your images. As you will see in the image example below, it’s quite astounding what you can achieve.
Topaz DeNoise
This image is an outtake from the 18 August of my August Snaps project. The picture was taken after dark with the Canon G9 and at ISO 200 and as you can see from the enlargements there is quite a lot of noise apparent in the original (left).
As the enlargements also show Topaz DeNoise has done a really fine job at significantly reducing the amount of noise in the image (right). I have to say I’m very impressed by this plug-in.
Topaz is running a two-week promotion until the 15 March 2010. You can get the Topaz Photoshop Bundle for just $143.99 if you use the coupon code “newadjust” when you check-out. This represents a 20% discount on the normal bundle price of $179.99.
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Mon, Mar 8, 2010
Software