Photoshop

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

Merge Panorama

Copy all layers to new layers
select all copies, right click > convert to smart object
select smart object, go to layer > smart objects > stack mode > median
rename to foreground & hide
hide all but one layer
select one layer, add layer mask, select white box on this layer
chose brush, select black color, mask out foreground (if it doesn’t show up, make sure all layers are hidden but this one)
control + alt click mask and drag to next layer, repeat for all non-foreground layers
unhide all non foreground layers
select all
edit > auto align layers with defaults
right click each mask & delete
select all layers > right click > convert to smart object, name ‘sky’
select new smart object, layer > smart objects > stack mode > median


unhide foreground
add new layer mask to foreground
brush with black, paint out sky.
flatten, save