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Grainy photos - salvagable?

kehfrog

kehfrog

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Hi all,

I took a series of photos of my niece this past weekend with my Kodak M1033 (no big-girl camera for me yet!). I posed her near a window that had a nice bright but diffused light coming in and didn't use the flash. Unfortunately, *all* the pictures turned out grainy. :-(

Are there any post-processing techniques to allow these pictures to be usable for digiscrap?

A sample:

3489212292


Sigh - I can't make the picture appear. Here's the link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kpnew/3489212292
 
maybe... there are some filters in Photoshop that you can run to help with despeckling photos, reducing noise, etc...
 
hum...
I would try an unsharp filter and then shapen edge, but I am not sure of how it will trun out. but most definitively I would think to turn the photo into a "art" piece and run amazing action from Amanda or Nina. or many other designers here at the O

It is SO frustrating to get photo like this. Try to blend them in a paper to be able to scrap them... and to preserve the memory of the moment!

val
 
The tiny camera I keep in my purse sometimes produces grainy photos. And wouldn't you know that those candid snapshots are always the ones I want to keep the most!

There are some noise reduction programs that you can download. Some of them are free, or free trials. I have one from this company.

If you look down at the very bottom there are some that will give you a 15 day free trial. Plenty of time to hurry and fix your photos. It does a pretty good job making a useable image. The downside is that you do lose a little bit of detail from your photo. Hope that helps!
 
Total side note....Flickr won't let you pull in pictures to post in forums, etc. =) Google's pics will though.
 
These ideas all seem great!! for me my first instinct would be to reduce the noise --photoshop elements 7 -- Filter, Noise, reduce noise. Then I would add a surface blur which keeps the edges neat but will blur inside the lines. -- filter, blur, surface blur. If that doesn`t meat your satisfaction I agree with Val -- blend it with paper, here are two examples where I didn`t like the picture quality so I blended them.

https://ozone.oscraps.com/gallery/s...ields&name=alyssascrapper&name=alyssascrapper

https://ozone.oscraps.com/gallery/s...ields&name=alyssascrapper&name=alyssascrapper

i hope that helps!
 
Here is an idea too.....if you don't want to mess around with it etc....

Why not save it by blending it as is maybe a little cropped...into a paper and keeping the layout simple? Amanda (Taylormade) has a fabulous tutorial on how to do this :)

Just a thought :)
 
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