How to Reduce Noise in Photoshop 

What I love about these videos is that you go into detail and explain exactly what's going on. Most other tutorials only go as far as telling you what tools to use and not why you're using them.

This is one of the most common tasks in image manipulation but until Phlearn covers a topic I'm not satisfied regarding the informations I have about it. Thanks for yet another awesome video!

There is a much better way. I zoom in about 800% and adjust hue, saturation, and value on each individual pixel. It takes years, but there is no loss of detail.

Thanks for explaining it so detail. This is the first video I found about reducing noise that I actually understand how and why we chose this and that function or %. Really helpful for a beginner like me

That is the best explanation of threshold that I have seen! Thanks for that.

Awesome. Your videos are so helpful. Thanks a million!

Can always trust that iam going to get good tips tricks and tips from you . Keep up the god work

Thanks a lot my man! Keep up The amazing work!

I like this video .Now I know how to work on old damaged photos. Thanks a lot for this tutorial.

Learned alot this episode, thanks again Aaron

thanks Aaron ! really helpful your video

I think that picture actually looked better with noise.

Great tutorial, thank you!

Video starts att around 3min.. Great video!

Your tutorials are impressively usefull, than you so much!

My quick and dirty solution when working in camera raw is adding luminance and then adjusting the mask and sharpening to add detail back

Your Video Quality is Awesome, Excellent :)

Hi Phlearn Photoshop and Photography Tutorials. I was wondering if you would do some reviews on camera equipment. I would love to see some budgets guides ( mainly on motorized dollys or cameras) would you be open for that?

*Is this method better than reducing noise in Camera Raw directly on the Raw file with the combination of Luminance Noise and then restoring detail with sharp mask?*

I literally today, came across this problem and was like damn, the reduce noise filter isnt enough. Thanks guy this is a real life saver for my shoot.

Very good tutorial

I liked the last step of reducing the opacity of the group. looked a little strange to me after all the filters. Bringing back a little bit of the noise seems more realistic. I would even go as far and say, that maybe only reducing the color noise makes it look more "analog grain-ish" which would also be a nice look, i guess. Thanks for the episode! This surface blur thing is genius!!

nice video and channel!! ;)

That's what I was looking for :D Thanks a lot!

Very informative, thank you.

Perfect in photo touching tutorial. He is awesome, honest and great artistic! Keep moving ahead Phlearn!

Thank you the tutorial. I used it to a photo, that I made on a concert with the singer :)

I take pictures (I not consider myself a photographer, kind of a hobbyist maybe) of classical music concerts and I really struggle with this things. First, because in my college they don't let you take pictures been really close to the stage because you can distract the artists and also the public, so since I didn't have a lot of money to buy a lens that would let me take pictures from a far, I buy a super zoom camera. Also, in classical music people tend to like more pictures with no motion what so ever so low shutter speed is not an option. Finally poor lighting and not able to use extra lights make it worst. This was really useful thank you.

Awesooome !!!

thank you so much

Thank you so much for posting this video! It's going to help me tremendously. I do have one question: would I reduce the noise of a photo before or after color correction and grading? Thanks again!

It was helpful (Y) . Thank you !

Great video. I'm using ps to restore old movie posters and sell them.

My Canon 60D is terrible for noise so I try not to go above 200 to 250. But I've been shooting a tank display today and it was very overcast. I was using quite a high apature, around f8 to f11, so I had to use high ISOs, 1600 at one point. So thanks for this, I'm going to give it a try now,

Great job! I like how you explain the process in the beginning, giving us the 30,000 ft view, and how you do a quick overview summary at the end. It makes it helpful when we need to go back for a refresher on one of your lessons. Great work Phlearn!

Thank u so much!

Thank you

brilliant u guys thank you sooooooo much!

Thanks man, exactly what i needed! pretty new to photography. Amazingly helpful!

Great technique but too much loss of detail for me. 🙂

The results are amazing! Thank you!

The title says "How to Reduce Noise In Photoshop" not all this other garbage - Tutorial starts at 3:18

Mr. Phlearn your tutorial was awesome and very helpful. Very informative, easy to follow and fun to watch! Please continue to make more! They are truly a blessing! Pray all is well! grace and Peace!

Thank you very much.. I need your kind help to find a way to remove natural rain from any rainy landscape image ..

Wow....this video just helped me clean up many of my photos. Thanks very much for posting! Thank you Aaron Nace.....another informative video to help us wannabe's :0)

Why don't you just use the camera raw filter??? the result would be better and quicker....

Hi could you please do a tutorial on how to make a JPEG, JPG, picture or photo in definite 100% 1080p HD on photoshop please. Thank you, and the thing that I'm trying to figure out is that when you zoom in and zoom in of the picture you see some little blur or noise that I'm trying to know how to remove it and make seriously but I mean REALLY AND REALLY HD.

Thank you so much. This helped me actually understand what to do. I made my pic look awesome!! with your help. Thank you

Ahhh once again Phlearn saves me. Love the "in conclusion" stuff at the end too! Very helpful for when I forget part of the process and I just need a quick skim through! Keep up the good work.

but how to sharpen properly when needing to reduce noise? should I still be doing a high pass method afterwards?

Can you please make a series with tutorials on images that's not taken with professional camera with perfect lightning and so on. Like making a tutorial on how to fix up photos taken with a shitty iphone camera with piss poor lightning? that would be awesome :) Great vid btw :D

hii.... how you remove overlight from any image ....???? except LEVEL property....

Any tips on reducing noise in astrophotos? DSLR camera. Typical: 70 Frames, ISO800 and shutter speed 180 seconds. Stacked to form one image, but noise is a huge problem.

Threshold: Outer stopping points (prob do that first) Radius: How much of the effect you want (do that second) find the key balance for the best result!

Curious why so many "experts" are still saying ISO is the the sensitivity of the sensor. That's just false. And it doesn't matter if that helps people understand it, it's still incorrect. 1) ISO is camera model specific and isn't actually standardized despite being an acronym for International Organization for Standardization and 2) it is literally a post image multiplier of the pixel values. It has absolutely nothing to do with "sensitivity" of the sensor and saying that it does just propagates the misunderstanding. For those that want to explore this further check out Tony Northrups videos on ISO.

I prefer a sharp image with a touch of noise than a soft image with zero noise .........a dark image like the one in the example just doesn't look right without a touch of noise....maybe it is just me as I shot film for so long before moving to digital...........personally I think the effect he did made the image look soft and out of focus and thus a poorer quality image than the original with a touch of noise - Most editors look for sharpness in your portfolio - if your images are not sharp you won't get the job, trust me........worry more about being sharp than a touch of noise - The final image in this example I would not put in my portfolio as it is just too soft.....noise reduction is best used in graphical images, especially sunsets i find - just my opinion

Unfortunately didn't help me at all :( the noise I have doesn't look like little dots to begin with, just smudges, and the surface blur just made it worse :( I don't know what to do anymore, the healing brushes kind of work, but I don't have that kind of time to go over the whole image, can anyone help with the issue of having smudge-like noise?

If the image is printed on a small canvas I guess you'll need to pay attention to the fact it is blured. You'd rather notice these large black areas where noise rules. xD But true that at full size the result is not so good. If aaron@phlearn can't do it I guess I shouldn't try too hard to get a perfect result. :/ I guess I'd try several things such as playing around with layer fusion modes or removing pixels from a black pictures taken from the camera. I'm not certain the noise is always the same on each picture though. Or take a couple and keep the median data of them. To be given a try.

If you wanna go further, I highly recommend Neat Image plugin. It's not free, but it allows you to reduce noise on three detail levels (Low / Mid / High) and three channels (Y / Cb / Cr).

Isn’t there a way to do what you did to fill in the pixels that re grainy? Like using one layer as a color and another as a luminosity over the original?

I think it's better to reduce noise more selectively. Usually the noise more in your face in the shadows so I use "blend if" to be able to get more noise reduction in shadows and less in highlights. No I'm not good at English ;)

the beginning is a little bit to basic for me. I guess, most of the people who watch this channel know about the basics of the exposure triangle.

Thanks for this tut, and best part is looking cool as earlier....

Me: looks up tutorial to see if i can reduce / blend the noise in this pic Tutorial: Check your ISO, you want to keep it under 800 Me, looks at ISO in the raw metadata: ISO is 3200. Well theirs my problem >__

I hope this isn't a stupid question, but after you did everything and you are left with the original and two copies of the image, do you flatten all three and save or just the two copies??

Excellent video. That's going to help me a ton.

shot from the same object with the same aperture and shutter speed, one photo was taken by high ISO, the other one was taken by low ISO but its exposure had been brought up to the same level as the former photo in Photoshop， which photo has more noise？

great vid as usual. I want to restore my old grandparents wedding photo, their wedding pic is sooo old and even have cracked in the middle. Is there a way to retouch it? Would love to see if u can bring episode of restoring an old pictures.

thanks man. really appreciate this vid

Is this Background put in in Post (of the actual footage,not the image) or shot in the studio? kinda looks different

i was really looking for a good tutorial for reducing noise in images,it really helped me. thanks PHLEARN*^▁^*

If you increase the dark on "LEVELS" or add more contrast, it looks great at all.

your tutorial was good .. but you're talking too much. no offense dude. peace

hello phlearn we need some digital painting tutorials please do some tutorials on digital painting

Hello, can you please make a video on noise reduction in milkyway picture? Thanks

OMG I live the warm lights and feeling of this video!!!

Would adding a high pass filter after the de-noise steps work to return some of the detail and sharpness to the image?

amazing great video and can you do one about video comment yes who ever wants a video like that 😃

You said blur instead of noice lot of times hahaha, nice tutorial

This is exactly what I'm looking for! Also, thanks for the little recap/quick version at the end!

thank you kind sir, I sincerely appreciate all your tutorials.

i think we all know what iso and apputure is, if not there is no point of wathing this video so just get on with it, took 4 minutes for you to get startet

every time you said noise it sounds like NOICEEE - key and peele. haha

Can we reduce the noise in lightroom by reducing the luminance?

apart from the blur technique, how does that compare to lightroom?

thank you for the video I was really struggling with noise for a wedding I shot with horrible lighting

Very nice channel 👌 👌 👌 👌 👌 👌 👌

can you do an example of this in a shoot?

how to take a picture of a glass and then changing the background ?

Thanks for sharing. I always like your tutorials.

Thanks, Aaron, for another cogent, concise and informative video. Some of the comments (below) defy belief and I sometimes wonder how the human race has got as far as it has with minds that are still in the australopithecine stage of evolution!! As my teachers used to say: READ the question!!!! i.e. it's about "How to Reduce Noise in Photoshop" Cheers Ciro

Is it just the video edit, or does it get dark so quick outside in 11 minutes?

how do you group using abobe photoshop is it the same as linking?

Aaron, the third angle of Exposure Triangle is not ISO but light. ISO is just post exposure gain regulation. Iso is not increasing sensor sensitivity cause this one is constant.

Thanks, most pictures from unsplash has alot of noise

Aaron - Your intro makes perfect sense, but I could still use some help. I'm trying to PS an old .jpg photo of a re-modeled GTO ('76) for a relative. I am having one major obstacle eliminating the noise of a chrome panel at the bottom of the vehicle. The picture was taken with an iPhone 7+ @ ISO 20, 1/6800 sec @ f/1.8. What happens is that the bottom chrome panel looks like a silver dotted line across the length of the car no matter what I do, and I cannot figure how to eliminate or smooth out this look. It's extremely distracting. Can you please help?

Hi, love your channel. I haven't tested this yet, and I will later and try to chime back in here... Do you know if this will work with video files by converting to a smart object (as the camera raw filter does)? Many thanks, could be an interesting effect...

Great tutorial, I bet we'll live to see common cameras with ISO that doesn't add any noise up to great numbers.

It's worth to mention about Neat Image plugin for Photoshop (IMHO best noise reducer).

Where did u buy that cam sticker on your laptop?