Whilst NeatImage is very good at removing noise you still have to be careful not to overdo it It’s showing some posterisation due to the jpg compression Same as Image 16 except the image has been converted from 16 bit to 8 bit and saved at a quality of 7 Neat Image 100% Lum, 90% Background, 50% Subject Lightroom Sharpening Off, Noise Reduction Off 90% noise reduction and 100% Luminance on the complete image.90% noise reduction and 100% Luminance for the background and 50% for the subject.90% noise reduction on the complete image.90% noise reduction for the background and 50% for the subject.So for NeatImage I stuck with using the profiles for my camera, the Canon 7DMk2, that I’d generated a while ago, and use the following settings in NeatImage as shown in Image 1
With this in mind I decided to run the same image through NeatImage using different settings in Lightroom.Īs I’d previously settled on a set of NeatImage values after a lot of trial and error, I decided to stick with these values for the time being and only change the values in Lightroom.
Just my opinion and others will probably disagree. Originally I was under the impression that I wasn’t doing any noise reduction in Lightroom or Photoshop as I didn’t think they were very good. This is a revised description of my noise reduction workflow using NeatImage. If you can’t be bothered with the whys and wherefores then you can click the links below to go to each section.