Noise Reduction

Simon Carlton

• December 23, 2019 17:32

Just a quickie in PS it's recommended, as far as I am aware you should use noise reduction first before any other adjustments.

Should the NR in C1 have to be used first?

Thanks
Simon.

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  Ian Wilson

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  • December 23, 2019 17:41

  

  I don't think so. For instance, you may only see the need for doing something other than the default noise reduction once you have recovered some shadow detail and found the outcome rather noisy.
  
  I think that something like PS only starts being used after a lot of other things have been done (for a PS user, quite likely in Lightroom, but possibly in other raw processors, including Capture One). Even if you only used PS and not a separate raw converter, you would have had to do some things in Camera Raw before you ever got the image into PS proper.
  
  So it's not really a fair comparison to try to do things in C1 in the order you would do them in PS.
  
  And the order of things in C1 doesn't much matter.
  
  Ian

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  Keith Reeder

  • December 23, 2019 18:04

  You have no final control over the conversion/processing pipeline in a Raw converter: once you've chosen what you want to do, the software always follows its pre-programmed sequence of adjustments.
  
  Oh - and I don't agree with the "NR first" model: I've processed many thousands of high ISO images over the years, and I'm utterly wedded to the idea that you apply NR as and when you need it, after you've applied all of the other adjustments you need, including (especially) resizing. That's the only point at which you know how much NR is actually required for the intended final result.
  
  That doesn't actually matter to the sequence in which Capture One applies the adjustments - as I say, that's hard-coded into the software - but it ensures that you don't apply NR unnecessarily.

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  Simon Carlton

  • December 24, 2019 15:28

  Keith Reeder wrote:
  You have no final control over the conversion/processing pipeline in a Raw converter: once you've chosen what you want to do, the software always follows its pre-programmed sequence of adjustments.
  
  Oh - and I don't agree with the "NR first" model: I've processed many thousands of high ISO images over the years, and I'm utterly wedded to the idea that you apply NR as and when you need it, after you've applied all of the other adjustments you need, including (especially) resizing. That's the only point at which you know how much NR is actually required for the intended final result.
  
  That doesn't actually matter to the sequence in which Capture One applies the adjustments - as I say, that's hard-coded into the software - but it ensures that you don't apply NR unnecessarily.

  
  
  Oh right, so in simple terms, edit in any order.
  
  Thank you and ahappy Christmas to you and yours
  
  Simon. 😄

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