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<blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 769183" data-attributes="member: 13196">Granted my edit has a little too much noise reduction going on. You can use an adjustment brush in Camera RAW or Lightroom and paint over the background although that isn't what I did here. I made a duplicate layer in PCC then took the duplicate layer to CR. I increased the noise slider, took it back to PCC, then masked out the cat (so the cat still had the original noise). Then I flattened the layer and took it into The Nik Collection's Dfine. I overrode the auto settings and lowered the contrast noise reduction and color noise reduction to 85% each. Made another duplicate layer. Sharpened a little in shake reduction. Went back to CR to increase the exposure slightly. If you started in LR, you could have used the adjustment brush over the colored background first as I mentioned. You might want to give that a try then run it through DeNoise to see how that affects the results. [ATTACH=full]364319[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hark, post: 769183, member: 13196"] Granted my edit has a little too much noise reduction going on. You can use an adjustment brush in Camera RAW or Lightroom and paint over the background although that isn't what I did here. I made a duplicate layer in PCC then took the duplicate layer to CR. I increased the noise slider, took it back to PCC, then masked out the cat (so the cat still had the original noise). Then I flattened the layer and took it into The Nik Collection's Dfine. I overrode the auto settings and lowered the contrast noise reduction and color noise reduction to 85% each. Made another duplicate layer. Sharpened a little in shake reduction. Went back to CR to increase the exposure slightly. If you started in LR, you could have used the adjustment brush over the colored background first as I mentioned. You might want to give that a try then run it through DeNoise to see how that affects the results. [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]364319._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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