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|| SportsShooter.com: Member Message Board Lightroom - Sharpening and Noise Reduction Alan Herzberg, Photographer Elm Grove | WI | USA | Posted: 9:54 AM on 11.04.09 ->> Two of the touted features of Lightroom 3 (beta) are the improved sharpening and color noise reduction capabilities. If any of you have taken a close look at those, what are your impressions? In my workflow I use Lightroom 2 to do all my toning of the image, then run a batch file in Photoshop to do sharpening (unsharp mask) and noise reduction (Noise Ninja plug-in). I shoot a lot of high school sports in dim lighting, so good noise reduction is an essential part of my processing photos. I'll be downloading and trying LR 3 beta in the next week or so but am wondering what others think of these two improved tools, and particularly, how they compare to third party plug-ins that are designed to do these tasks.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Mike Braca, Photographer Providence | RI | USA | Posted: 4:28 PM on 11.04.09 ->> I downloaded the LR3 beta because I wanted to compare the quality of the noise reduction with Noise Ninja and with LR2. But in LR3 under "Noise Reduction" the "Luminance" slider is grayed out because it wasn't included in the beta, so I'm holding off using it until there's something more complete to test.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Craig Fritz, Photographer Albuquerque | NM | USA | Posted: 6:33 PM on 11.04.09 ->> I have not done any testing per say, more like curious fiddling. Imported the same 5DMKII RAW file, shot at iso 25600 (ridiculous, I know.) The rendering in LR3 was MUCH better with less noise than in LR2. I did not mess with the noise slider, but it seems promising.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Darren White, Photographer Brisbane | QLD | Australia | Posted: 6:41 PM on 11.04.09 ->> I've always preferred using LR/Mogrify for export sharpening. I did think thank Noise Ninja had a plug in for Lightroom too. Seems a one stop shop solution therefore. I have seen reviews and heard a podcast from the guy at Adobe re NR in LR3 and indeed it sounds promising but as said without the luminance slider it's a bit hard to play with imho quite yet  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Add your comments... If you'd like to add your comments to this thread, use this form. You need to be an active (paying) member of SportsShooter.com in order to post messages to the system. NOTE: If you would like to report a problem you've found within the SportsShooter.com website, please let us know via the 'Contact Us' form, which alerts us immediately. It is not guaranteed that a member of the staff will see your message board post. Thread Title: Lightroom - Sharpening and Noise Reduction Thread Started By: Alan Herzberg Message: Member Login: Password: Return to --> Message Board Main Index

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