I found leaving the layer at the bottom of the stack an easier method. If you don’t keep the original layer at the bottom of the layer stack you will get a white border around the bird due to the differences between the two selections, and have to start messing about with increasing the selections by 1 pixel or some other method. This will give you 4 layers as shown in Image 18 and Image 19 below. Duplicate this layer then select it’s layer mask and invert it (Ctrl I) Duplicate this layer. Create a mask with this selection (3rd icon from the left at the bottom of the layers palette). The Action uses Select>Subject and gives you the opportunity to refine it. Then you usually need to refine the selection. On the top layer select the bird using whatever selection tool you’re happy with. Select the image in Photoshop and duplicate the layer. If your not interested in the action then this is the workflowĪfter doing your image adjustments in Lightroom Develop module, right click the image and select Edit in>Edit in Adobe Photoshop xxxx… (xxxx depending on your version of Photoshop) If you are interested and want to look at the images more closely then you can download the images and psd files I would expect the results to be the same as above What are the results like if I turn Lightroom sharpening off and noise reduction on? More experimentation is required and the next thing I would like to check is Masking subject and background gives far better results than just doing a single pass of NeatImage on the whole imageĪlthough I’m generally happy with my settings I still think there is room for improvement Images are definitely better if you use the Lightroom default settings for sharpening and noise reduction 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. Luminance 0 (As this is zero detail and contrast values are irrelevant).Since then, and with a lot of experimentation, I now realise that Lightroom defaults apply sharpening and noise reduction to the images. 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. Last Updated on Decemby Kevin Agar The preamble
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