I'm so bummed

[Recty]

Very nice, thanks a lot. I'm a work now but I'll try this when I get home.

I dont have noiseware, will that make a big difference in the outcome of the project?

 

[BlueCorn]

You can substitute Filter/Noise/Reduce Noise in Photoshop but it won't be quite as clean. Use the default values but drop the "Sharpen Details" slider to 0. It just reintroduces noise that would get amplified by the rest of the process. I highly recommend Noiseware or Noise Ninja as something that you should have in your tool kit. You won't need them on every shot but they're indispensable when you do.

Cheers

 

[Reef Bass]

Thank you for the explanation. I am looking forward to trying this when I get back to my desktop with CS4. I'm outta state with Elements at the moment.

You had to mention another "indispensable" piece of software to buy! Do you find the nosie reduction app has a detrimental effect on subtle details you'd rather retain, along the lines of dust removal algorithms?

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14756714#post14756714 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Reef Bass
You had to mention another "indispensable" piece of software to buy! Do you find the nosie reduction app has a detrimental effect on subtle details you'd rather retain, along the lines of dust removal algorithms?

Yes but the more care you take the less details you want to retain will be lost. Preserving these details is the whole point of having a dedicated noise reducer. They do a better job than Photoshop. Not that Photoshop does a bad job, the noise ninjas and like programs just do a better job of preserving the detail.

 

[IPT]

nice work Doug. The leap to digital sure has opened doors! I am so glad to be done using rollers, timers, and Cibachrome paper.Sure wish I had a clone stamp back then! I've learned to really like the digital prints but a good Cibachrome really rocks. Is digital to that level yet (paper and ink wise)?

 

[BlueCorn]

I think so Louis. I don't know a single professional that doesn't print digitally. Even those that still shoot medium and large format film generally scan the negative and print digitally.

 

[Recty]

Very nice. I just used this on yet another dark picture of the miniatus. It turned out much better than doing what I normally do, although I'm having a little bit of a hard time because the RAW file is opening kind of funky, the colors look very odd. I'll get it figured out, these steps you wrote up sure do help