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Remove Noise

 

Corey shows a quick and easy way to remove noise from your photographs.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

43 Comments

  1. Jari said on — April 2, 2008 @ 9:36 pm

    Awesome tutorial Thanks A lot

  2. Belinda said on — April 4, 2008 @ 9:17 pm

    wonderful! you saved a photo for me!

  3. Lukas Engqvist said on — April 25, 2008 @ 3:02 am

    I don’t see the noise :S zooming in at 100% and then scalingt the screen to does not give a visual, especially when you also use videocompression allogrithims.
    May be an idea to zoom in to 300% when showing before/after scenario.

  4. Kyle Hollier said on — May 5, 2008 @ 4:14 pm

    Saved my Life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  5. Titano said on — May 11, 2008 @ 11:51 am

    SAVED MY LIFE TOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

  6. Dick Katz said on — May 15, 2008 @ 4:20 pm

    Corey,

    Your tutorials are awesome! You wouldn’t believe the process I used to use to try to remove noise.

    Will these tips always be archived on the site?

    Dick

  7. Mervin said on — July 9, 2008 @ 10:11 pm

    Absolutely helpful. I am beginner at wedding photos and all my pictures taken had tremendous amount of noise. Had no way of fixing this until I look at you tips. BIG thank you. What would have caused this to happen?

  8. stig said on — July 18, 2008 @ 11:59 am

    Thank you for a great Tutorial, Corey.

  9. amanda said on — August 3, 2008 @ 6:02 pm

    Thank you so much, this was a life saver!!!

  10. Jeremy said on — August 17, 2008 @ 12:03 am

    Great thanks so much! So simple yet the results are amazing.

  11. rachel said on — September 17, 2008 @ 4:07 pm

    Wow, thats so kool!
    your tutorials are bomb!

  12. Vittorio said on — November 26, 2008 @ 12:57 pm

    you have no idea of the number of times you saved my life.

  13. bourbon said on — December 26, 2008 @ 11:38 am

    Awesome tutorial. Totally saved my photo :)

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  15. NJMAN said on — January 13, 2009 @ 11:57 pm

    You just taught me how to never fear noise again in my photos, and how to finally control it in my landscapes for a huge step up in quality. I am forever grateful!!! Thank you, thank you thank you!

  16. mycoolwater said on — March 27, 2009 @ 4:21 pm

    The point of this tutorial is surface blur on particular channels.

  17. QawareeqEmo said on — May 8, 2009 @ 2:02 am

    Thank You Very Much

    QawareeqEmo..

  18. DinoSantos said on — August 23, 2009 @ 1:26 pm

    Awesome tutorial, Thank you so much!!!!!!

  19. Manole Silviu said on — September 6, 2009 @ 2:39 am

    I am working on film cameras and I don’t like film noise like some does :D . This is the first good tutorial about removing noise I found so far. Thanks ;) .

  20. Carelia said on — October 19, 2009 @ 3:24 pm

    “This is the first good tutorial about removing noise I found so far” I second that!! Thanx!!

  21. luke said on — November 24, 2009 @ 9:47 pm

    Thanks heaps! sometimes your voice sounds like Tom Hanks! Nice one!

  22. Bobin said on — December 4, 2009 @ 3:12 am

    WOW!! wonderful ,, saved my life

  23. Christiana said on — December 27, 2009 @ 11:11 pm

    This was BY FAR the best tutorial I found for reducing noise in my digital photos. Thank you very much for sharing! =]

  24. deepeye said on — January 29, 2010 @ 10:39 am

    An instant bookmark! Reallly thanks.

  25. jithinrk said on — February 18, 2010 @ 2:01 pm

    awesome!! it worked wonders on my photographs.. ones i had shot at a much higher iso.. thanks! :)

  26. David Simpson said on — March 25, 2010 @ 4:10 pm

    Jeez All this time using reduce noise filter and being disappointed and yet it is this simple to get the result im looking for.. Thanks great job!

  27. Viperswife said on — March 29, 2010 @ 1:28 pm

    I completely love you! I had to shoot hockey pics at a high ISO and couldn’t use a flash. When I lightened the pics, they were so grainy. I was devastated. I know nothing about photoshop (mainly use Bridge), but I stumbled upon this video in an effort to save my pics, and YOU DID IT! There are no words to say how much I appreciate this!

  28. Drew said on — April 29, 2010 @ 12:43 pm

    Awesome tutorial. Very quick and easy.

    Thanks!

  29. Ben Timages said on — May 19, 2010 @ 5:46 am

    Thanks for this, Corey!! Saved my bacon too!

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  31. Juan said on — September 4, 2010 @ 4:46 pm

    thanks so much!!!

  32. luís said on — October 4, 2010 @ 12:25 pm

    thanks!

  33. Amy said on — December 29, 2010 @ 6:17 am

    Thank you so much!! I was in tears when I saw how awfully grainy the wedding photos had turned out and was devastated with them, and dissapointed in myself. I think i can recover most of them now – thanks to your tutorial!! Many thanks!
    Amy Xx

  34. Probal said on — January 8, 2011 @ 12:36 am

    This is very much helpful….

  35. Som said on — January 14, 2011 @ 12:28 am

    Thank you Corey….
    I just shot a roll of ISO 400 film and it was terribly grainy.
    Now many of my images are usable!

  36. Egg said on — January 15, 2011 @ 9:06 am

    Thank you so much! This will definately help in future.

  37. June said on — March 7, 2011 @ 7:53 pm

    Thanks a lot, very useful

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  39. David said on — March 28, 2011 @ 3:26 pm

    Hi Corey,

    thanks for the tut, very nice tips there. I did not know about the surface blur, reeeaaaally useful!

  40. One5860 said on — April 3, 2011 @ 12:34 am

    Awesome Tut, helped alot and will for future!

  41. Noised said on — July 13, 2011 @ 4:44 am

    This didn’t work for me… I use photoshop cs5. My photographs remain noisy whatever I do :(

  42. Lamielle said on — July 16, 2011 @ 7:47 pm

    Hello,

    Thanks for the tutorial. i have been playing it over and over again, but I couldn’t reall find out which one to open (e.g filter) Do yu have this in writen? I think it will be easier if I’ll follow you through writing. I am confuse where is the boxes coming from.

    Thank you so much!
    Lamielle from Switzerland

  43. Sérgio Fernandes said on — November 13, 2011 @ 11:21 am

    Amazing tutorial.

    You also can try separating the channels.

    Greetings,
    Sérgio Fernandes.

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