Removing Noise? Use a Surface Mask

[gmitchel]

The "Tip of the Week" on my site demonstrates how to use a surface mask when removing noise. Keeping noise removal away from edges prevents it from softening your images.

http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/photoshop-tips.htm

Cheers,

Mitch

[Radtech1]

Mitch,


The link no longer works, and I was unsuccessful in searching TLR webpage for surface masking. With the tinyurl, the Wayback Machine (http://www.archive.org/) did not work either.

Is the page gone, or am I not searching hard enough?


Thanks.

Rad

PS - If I can find it, I WILL print it this time. And, oh, I am interested in edge masking as well.

[gmitchel]

My site underwent a complete redesign.

The Digital Darkroom is here:

http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/digital-darkroom.htm

The discussion about using a surface mask is a Tip. You can find it here:

http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/photoshop-tips.htm

Cheers,

Mitch

[Radtech1]

That is so close to what I was looking for.

If memory serves (and it often does N:confused:T! ), I seem to recall that the tutorial had the actual steps to creating the mask. The action "deconstructed" so to speak. Was that removed from TLR? Was it ever there in the first place, or is all the LSD finally catching up with me?

Rad

[gmitchel]

OK. I see your point.

The steps for creating an edge mask are here:

http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/tip-making-edge-mask.htm

For a surface mask, just invert the edge mask.

Cheers,

Mitch

[Scottes]

Radtech, I also wrote a tutorial here for this. It goes through the steps in detail. It's probably overcomplicated and not as good as Mitch's, but it does show the steps in detail.
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=48929

[CyberDyneSystems]

Just FYI.. it was Scottes and Mitch who finallly pushed me into getting my act togehter and trying this techinique some time ago.. Scottes even showed me it in action and that was a real eye opener.

I've used it since and it has resulted in a marked improvement in my final output.
I find I use the manual approach for NR and invert for sharpening as often as I use the TLR sharpening toolkit.

If you have not tried these techniques for NR and sharpening.. I highly recomend that you do.

[Radtech1]

Mitch, Scottes and CDS,

Even though I bristle at people who inflate thier post counts by posts that say nothing but "thx dude", well, um, thanks dudes. Just what I was looking for.

Rad

PS - Mitch, would there be a point to having a TLR archive (a link to the old site) for the benifit of the "Ability to Handle Change Impared"?

[Mernya]

Not sure if is applicable here, but you might be able to use the wayback machine at www.archive.org

It isn't always 100% great even when it does work (especially if you have flash, scripts, or other things), but it is one way to look at old content.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Rad,.. check the "Tutorials" sticky.... there is an entire TLRStudio section in there ;)

[CyberDyneSystems]

... and of course all the links would be broken... :lol:


My site underwent a complete redesign.

The Digital Darkroom is here:

http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/digital-darkroom.htm

The discussion about using a surface mask is a Tip. You can find it here:

http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/photoshop-tips.htm

Cheers,

Mitch