Just under the wire…

enver did mighty fine yesterday in their handling of the Raiders, so hats off to them for getting the season started on the right note. Go Broncos!

As you may have guessed from yesterday’s post, today is Tutorial Tuesday, and since time is ticking away from me here, I’ll get right to it. The tutorial today does a comparison of reducing noise from the built in settings inside Photoshop versus a third party plugin. Granted, I went through it pretty quick and didn’t go into a lot of detail on the various settings, but I did want to give you the upshot of applying the different types of nosie reduction, so you can see how superior a 3rd party plugin is to pretty much any native reduction method.

The plugin I am using is for Noise Ninja, but I am sure that the others mentioned in yesterdays comments (thanks go out to Michael Palmer, Jen Rinaldi, and Brian Reyman for their contributions) perform equally well. So…without further ado:

Noise Reduction Tutorial (Web based)

Noise Reduction Tutorial (Quicktime)

So, that’s it for today. Tune in tomorrow for the latest edition of What’s This? Until then, happy shooting and watch those apertures!

Oh yeah, one final thing – for those picking up the blog in their feed readers: Is this podcasting plugin that I am using working? (I am trying a switch from Podpress to Podcasting on the blog, and am curious how the feed crawlers and readers will pick this up). Don’t forget too, the poll on the right hand panel has another few days left, so be sure to chime in and share your thoughts on casual shooting trends.

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Noise, Lighting, and Links – Oh My!

In lieu of a video tutorial today, I’ve recorded an audio podcast. The primary reason for this is because the tip I want to share involves a technique I don’t really have a good sample shot in my library to show you how to apply the technique. So…tune in to this special audio episode for Canon Blogger.

Show notes include information on:

  • I will have a new gallery of photos out on my photography gallery site tomorrow.
  • Selective Noise Reduction
  • A DIY Backlight (how to make your own)
  • Not one, but 2 videos on lighting gear from www.prophotolife.com
  • Jason Moore is off to France, with kudos on his way out from Photoshop User TV
  • Don’t forget to check out Jason’s Geographic Community Composition on Thursday of this week (the 15th)

Happy shooting and we’ll see you back here again tomorrow!