Lightroom

Noise Reduction (for birds)

Chromiance noise

• Increase luminance slider to 100%
• increase color slider until they turn to blobs
• increase smoothness until to get rid of blobs
• reduce luminance back to 0, should be just salt & pepper noise

Luminance Noise

• Increase luminance slider until just gets rid of noise (might go 80% or more, bird looks lsightly cartoonish
  • this reduces sharpness too much
• Add a tiny bit of sharpening
• Masking - only sharpen the bird. Press alt, then slide until only the bird is in white
• Detail slider - press alt, increase until move to the right until you see embossed detail
• Radiance slider (uses contrast) - alt and increase until there are shadows around edge, thats a bit too much so back off

Sharpening

• Alt + increase sharpness slider until details come back