Sharpen & Reduce Noise in On1 Photo RAW 2020

hey guys this is Anthony Morgan tee I am mr. photographer calm in this video I'm going to talk about sharpening in noise reduction in on one photo raw 2020 in my opinion they really improved the noise reduction in on one photo raw 2020 from the previous version on one photo raw 2019 now I have this video of this gorilla she hired me to do this shot she wanted a new image for her Facebook profile and this is the image she chose unfortunately I shouted it really high ISO because I had to use existing light and if you look in zoom in you could see there's a lot of noise in this image now what I recommend you do when you do sharpening and noise reduction is try not to do it globally like try not to do it all over the image pick what parts of your image really need noise reduced reduction and pick what parts of your image really need sharpening I think you'll find if you do it that way overall your image will look better now in the case of this image I don't really need to sharpen the background and I don't want to sharpen the background also if you zoom in the background has probably the most noise so really the background is really where I need to concentrate the noise reduction now as far as sharpening is concerned when I look at it I of course I want other gorillas to be very sharp mainly though I want her face and features to be sharp I really don't need her fur to be like really sharp and to tell you the truth quite often if you're photographing animals and you over sharpen or even you just sharpen the fur or feathers of an animal sometimes it just looks over sharpened so you don't need to sharpen the fur as much as I need to sharpen her face and when i zoom in I could see there is quite a bit of noise on her face as well now I mentioned that they improved the noise reduction in on one photo raw 20/20 and if we go over on the right-hand panel and I go to the details tab Wow you could see right here they have version 20/20 so they give you the older version from 2017 and the newer version in 2020 now the problem with using the noise reduction and sharp in the develop module on one photo raw 2020 is that it's a global adjustment it's going to affect every pixel and I mentioned at the top that in my opinion it's better if you selectively sharpen and reduce noise in your image so this section I tend to not use I prefer to go into the effects module in you sharpening a noise reduction there because I could use a mask and I could apply it exactly where I want but I do want to just talk about some of the features of this tab just in case you prefer to use it here now first of all across the top we have these filter presets so you have default which is no sharpening at all you can see none of the sliders moved then we have below and you can see it added some sharpening and it added a little bit of noise luminance and color noise reduction then we have high and it's basically just threw all the sliders up a little more then in the drop down we have a couple more we have for print if you're going to print an image I suppose they feel that this is the optimum sharpening and noise reduction for printing and then further down in the drop down we have screen so if you're going to share this online you may prefer this and if I'm in a real hurry I will use this and I tend to use screen because I think screen gives you a nice balance of sharpening and noise reduction and if i zoom in it's still there's there's still a lot of noise in this image but if I turn this filter tab off as you can see there's a lot of noise I turn it back on you can see it did reduce it so I kind of like screen generally speaking the trouble is if you start applying a lot of noise reduction to an image you tend to soften it so the feet the detail gets softened that's where this detail slider here will come in well let me zoom in so I have a part of her face in and the background and I'm going to turn or put luminance noise reduction all the way up alright for this demonstration and you can see it's really softened a lot the features if you go to this detail slider and move it to the right what it's aim to do is is its aiming to bring back and I'm just going to keep sliding it back and forth so you can see the effect it's going to bring back some of the detail that you obliterated with the luminance slider but hopefully not reintroduce the noise and you can see it does a really nice job this is where I think the main improvement is in the 20/20 version of the noise reduction you could see that I think it does a really nice job so if you look at her face right don't let it fall all the way down look at her face right now and I'll move this detail slider to the right and you can see that and I'll just keep moving it back and forth you can see how it's really bringing back some of that subtle detail in her face you have the same thing for the color noise reduction slider as well the detail slider works in the exact same way if you move that to the right hopefully you'll rescue some of the detail that you may have smoothed out a little bit by using the color reduction slider color noise reduction slider so I'm going to reset all this and just gonna click right here and reset this so we'll bring this back down to its zero position you also have a little check box right here for remove hot pixels quite often with some sensors pixel might go dead and it will just be real bright you'll get a real bright little color they're usually red green or blue sometimes they'll be a different color if if the red green and blue segments of that pixel went they might be white at any rate you click that it will remove those hot pixels so that's the details tab that's in the develop module now I mentioned I'd much prefer to use sharpening and noise reduction in the effects module because we could selectively apply it where we want to apply it so I'm in the effects module now just for the sake of now I'll just zoom out and I like to do noise reduction first and I like to do it early in my processing so I strongly suggest that you do the same because if you do a lot of processing to the image many times throughout that processing when you're adding a of structure and sharpening you're going to be enhancing the noise and it's going to be more difficult to remove so if you remove the noise early in your workflow it will tend to work out better so I'll go to add filter and I'll go to noise reduction which is right here now this filter from what I understand it still uses the 2020 version of the noise reduction but it's laid out a little different and it doesn't allow you to use the older version now you can see by default it already added some luminance and color noise reduction to the image also it has a detail slider you could see here that operates a little differently than the detail slider that's in the development row and I'll talk about that more in a minute but like most of the filters all the filters that are in on one we have filter presets going along the top so you have subtle and by default that's what we got up you know it applied it to subtly to the image strong let's see it just moves these sliders to different position shadows and you can see there's a drop down here so we're applying this sharpening and noise reduction just to the shadows and this is where if you really don't like using the actual masking you could use this this is targeting so we're targeting the shadows now with this let's say with this particular noise reduction filter I want to remove noise in the shadows so I could probably come in here and just do this whatever I think to remove noise in the shadows then I could add another noise reduction filter because that's the nice thing about the effects module and on one we could add more than one of the same filter so I could add another noise reduction filter and maybe target that to the highlights and there's a drop down here where it allows you to highlights mid-tones or you could target specific colors red green blue magenta cyan and yellows so that helps you target you also have a little eyedropper here so you could click that eyedropper to activate it the cursor turns into that plus sign and you could just click on the area you want to reduce the noise so you could really target what you want to target with this filter now I mentioned that I really want to mainly remove the noise in that background so what I'm going to do is I'm going to zoom in and I'm gonna keep it here so I could see part of where I want the detail on her face but I want to remove this noise in the background so what I'm going to do is I'm going to target it with this eyedropper and I'll come in here and I'll just kind of click right there now I'll do a before/after by turning off the filter and on the filter and there's before and there's after now overall there's a lot of a color noise in this image and you could see that the color noise slider is pretty far up the luminance noise slider probably isn't far enough so we're going to move that way up so we're really starting to target the lighter part of the background you could see that it didn't really do anything with that that other area back here so I think what would be better and probably faster as if I just use a conventional mask so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna reset this filter and I'm going to go back and I'm gonna turn a luminance noise reduction and color noise reduction all the way up so you could see it it really got rid of a lot of that noise but it also softened her face quite a bit now this is where this detail slider comes in you could bring back some of that detail by moving this to the right but I really don't need that here because we're talking about the background and I'm going to use a mask so I'm gonna click on the mask icon so what I want to do is I want this filter to only affect the background but right now it's affecting every single pixel so what I need to do is I need to invert this mask so we're going to go to the invert mode to invert it and then what I'll do is I need to get the actual masking brush which is right here and we're going to paint in the adjustment and I could paint in on the background I also should add I don't need to do this and actually the more I'm thinking of it it might be easier to paint out the effect on the gorilla so what I'll do is I'll invert it again now hopefully I didn't lose you this filter is being applied everywhere and to prove that if you look at the the gorillas face and I'll turn it off you can see how it really softened her face so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to paint out the effect or this filter on the gorilla itself so I'm gonna get a larger brush by hitting the right bracket key the left bracket key would make it smaller and will come in here and make sure that my past is at 100 and I'll keep the other again 50 and I'll come in here and just for the sake of this a video and for time I'm just going to go very quickly now if I want to see the man right down here this little icon here I could click and you could see that I could see it now if I want to see a different version of the mask right now I'm seeing the black and white version if I go up to mask go down to View mode and I go to red overlay right there there I could better see now where I'm actually applying this on the gorilla so I could better come in and get these edges like this so I'll come in here I'll just do a very quick chop so you get an idea and get her shoulder yeah come up and over do it now if I overdo it like this I kind of did that on purpose to show you just go up to this and go to paint in and so we're gonna just remove it from wherever I over brushed so I think that it's good enough for the sake of this demonstration so I want to turn this overlay off go down here to this little icon again and click again so now I applied a maximum amount of luminance and color noise reduction to the background I'll go back to the View mode and I'll click in and you can see that it really took out that noise there's before and there's after all right now I really need to deal with the Gorillaz face the face her face itself has noise in it has a lot of color noise and luminance noise so what I'm gonna do here is I'm going to add another noise reduction filter alright so we'll go to noise reduction so I'm adding a second one now this one is just targeting her face so what I want to do is trying to zoom in and look at it and I want to like really get rid of the noise and the color noise is pretty bad but I won't I need to rescue that detail so I'll move this to the right and you can see it's kind of bringing back some of that noise as well so it's kind of a dance here but between these two sliders what I could do too is I could leave this down and I want to sharpen this so I could do a sharpening filter for her face now again this is being applied everywhere because I didn't tell the filter where to apply it yet so I'm gonna try to do it just to the shadows right now we could do see if I go there's mid-tones and you can see the difference so there's mid-tones they're shadows so there's shadows so I think that is really applying it mainly to her face and her fur as i zoom out temporarily so there's before and after you really can't tell when you're zoomed out so I think that's okay now I really want to sharpen but I just want to sharpen her face I don't need to sharpen anywhere else her fur is sharp more than sharp enough and I mentioned if you apply sharpening to fur and feathers even sometimes a little bit of sharpening it will look over sharpened especially her first since it's so short and kind of course I think the sharpening would look overdone on her first so we're just gonna do it to her face so we're gonna add filter and we're going to go to sharpening and we have a lot of choices here we have the filter presets along the top you could fix folks that focus which is very strong you can see their screen which is more subtle we have for print again this is what they feel may be sharpening should be done if you're printing if you go in the drop-down you have a lot more choices and you could pick a little better for printing whether you're printing the glossy a paper or matte paper and so on there's also different types of sharpening progressive sharpening high-pass sharpening things like that so we have these different types of sharpening now if I go to I I personally usually like high pass or screen high it's called generally speaking for a lot of different things I'm just used to using that in Photoshop there's also high pass up here but screen high looks pretty good on this image I believe so there's a before and after for after now it actually doesn't look too bad on her fur and I'm going to it's got progressive sharpening and I'm going to protect the highlights see what that does kind of remind of removing it from the highlights of her skin I don't think we really need that though um if this was a human you could protect the skin as well you often don't want to over sharpen the skin you can protect the shadows that's going to just remove it now from the darker areas and they don't really want that either now what I want to do is just really sharpen her face mainly so I'm going to use a mask again I'll click here and what I'll do is I'll invert the mask so it's going to remove it from everywhere and what I want to do is paint it in but this time I'm going to bring opacity down because I want to progressively add sharpening to her face so I'll bring it around her 28 so usually I bring it around 30 25 30 in there and I'll leave feathering at 50 and I'm going to paint on her features of her face and get kind of the first surrounding her face as well do it again so you're building it up you're building up the sharpening on her face let's see if we could see in the the if we view the mask itself it's hard to tell on that version I have to go to the View mode of grayscale and I think you could better see it you can see how I built it up and I didn't really I missed a spot in there so I didn't really do a good job generally speaking I suggested you turn this on not this version turn the red version on maybe so you could kind of see where you're going with this and they really want the sharpening more on her middle of her face so we're gonna come in here and maybe put it in there a little more then everywhere else we'll turn that off by clicking view again so there is the sharpening now there's before and there's after you could see how we just added that sharpening to her face when someone looks at an image they will tend to look at a look away from the blurrier parts of the image and that's why a lot of times photographers would use a specific aperture to try to get somebody to look where they want them to look they'll use a wide aperture with a lot of parts of the image that are out of focus so someone will try to will only look at the part that sharper and the same thing with sharpening a noise reduction if I make her face sharp that's where I really want people to look is at her face then everything else is in his sharp especially that backgrounds blurry they'll tend to zero right in on her face now I actually I think it's a little bit over sharpened so what I'll do is I'll just take I could take this opacity slider down just a little bit I think that's good see I don't want to over sharpen and those of you that have watched my videos know that I don't usually sharpen my images quite a bit I do kind of nominally nominally apply sharpening to my image now to finish this off I will add a vignette a vignette further will help draw everyone's attention more towards the middle or more in this case more towards the Gorillaz face so what I'll do is I want to bring it down like this but I don't want it centered like this so it's I want it around her face so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna click on this little tool right here which will help me put the center of the vignette where I want it to be and what I'll do is I'm gonna hold the shift key in then I could drag it around and see where I'm putting it so I'm gonna put it right center Center it on her face and then I'm gonna just back it off a little bit I just did that so I could better see what I was doing so I think that looks pretty good right there and I think she'll be happy for that for her Facebook profile um that's sharpening a noise reduction on one photo raw 2020 I really love doing it in the effects module again because I could better target where I want to remove noise and where I want to sharpen thank you everyone who watches my videos I really do appreciate it I'll talk to you guys soon

Channel: Anthony Morganti

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Length: 21min 34sec (1294 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 24 2019