Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 on Demand

Chapter 11. Reducing Noise and Sharpening

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• Apply the Sharpen Portraits Preset

• Apply the Sharpen Landscapes Preset

• Sharpen an Image in Luminance Mode

• Reduce Noise

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Introduction

Sharpening enables you to enhance edge contrast in your images, whereas noise reduction enables you to remove unwanted dot patterns that are apparent in your photographs. The Detail panel in the Develop module contains sliders that can help you perform both of these tasks.

It’s important to note that images that are shot in raw file format are untreated and can always use some sharpening and noise reduction. However, jpeg images already have some sharpening and noise processing applied by the camera. The Detail panel controls are ...