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Getting grain when bringing out the shadows?
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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 609748" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>Lots to say here starting with your image looks to be over a stop underexposed. Fix the exposure first then worry about the shadows. If you have Photoshop use the Levels adjustment to compress your light information (bring the bright marker in from the right until you have actual light information). This will give the shadows adjustment actual shadows to deal with and move some of the shadowy areas out of that area.</p><p></p><p>Here's your image with just a levels adjustment. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]247210[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>The noise you're getting comes with trying to amplify the low light levels beyond the amount for which they have good information. A proper levels adjustment doesn't amplify as much as it redistributes where each pixel is in the Blacks/Shadows/Highlights/Whites spectrum. If you get into luminosity masking techniques you can also find ways to boost certain areas of an image without using tools that will specifically amplify the pixel information, but there's a lot of stuff there to master.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 609748, member: 9240"] Lots to say here starting with your image looks to be over a stop underexposed. Fix the exposure first then worry about the shadows. If you have Photoshop use the Levels adjustment to compress your light information (bring the bright marker in from the right until you have actual light information). This will give the shadows adjustment actual shadows to deal with and move some of the shadowy areas out of that area. Here's your image with just a levels adjustment. [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]247210._xfImport[/ATTACH] The noise you're getting comes with trying to amplify the low light levels beyond the amount for which they have good information. A proper levels adjustment doesn't amplify as much as it redistributes where each pixel is in the Blacks/Shadows/Highlights/Whites spectrum. If you get into luminosity masking techniques you can also find ways to boost certain areas of an image without using tools that will specifically amplify the pixel information, but there's a lot of stuff there to master. [/QUOTE]
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