Quick Noise Reduction Tutorial

[Eric Yang]

Ashley wrote a new noise reduction, in which she covered the following topics:

• Benefits of using Topaz DeNoise
• When to use Topaz DeNoise in your workflow
• Best photo noise reduction and cleaning methods
• Basic DeNoise operation
• Working with image color noise
• Advanced steps to take with Topaz DeNoise.

Very cool! Check it out here: DeNoise Tutorial

Any questions? Post away!

[Socrates]

Eric,

I had told you before in an email that I have an extensive background in training and user manual production. I just took a look at Ashley's DeNoise Tutorial and it's really good. In fact, it's the best that I've seen from Topaz on any topic. She goes step by step and includes the all-important visuals. By the way, this format is much better than the movies as it allows the student to go at his/her own pace and, when necessary, to easily back up and reread passages. If you tell Ashley that I said that, I'll deny it! :haha:

I've been concurrently learning some of the goodies about PSE-8. I'm impressed but what do I know? I bought a Rambler once. (You're too young to remember Rambler automobiles but suffice it to say that there's a good reason why they don't exist anymore). In any event, I'm not willing to stick my neck out right now but I expect that I will soon provide you and her with some info that relates PSE-8 to some of the functions that you and she have referenced with the full PS.

[tennie]

Yes, yes, yes!

I really prefer this type of tut....the video ones I don't care for (hate having the sound on and can't do an actual application at that time). I do need to refer to the tut often when first figuring it out.

[plugsnpixels]

Thanks Ashley (and Eric)! Very well done.

Socrates, here's a pic of my mother's Rambler from the early '60s (with a little help from Clean), and a pic of me in front of it. We managed to get from NJ to FL in this thing!

Then my father smashed it up... One less Rambler!

[Ashley Robinson]

I won't tell her either! lol.

And thank you. I am happy to see a positive response to this type of tutorial, so I will definitely make sure to have more of them offered.

Please feel free to let me know what else you would like to see.

I just took a look at Ashley's DeNoise Tutorial and it's really good. In fact, it's the best that I've seen from Topaz on any topic. She goes step by step and includes the all-important visuals. By the way, this format is much better than the movies as it allows the student to go at his/her own pace and, when necessary, to easily back up and reread passages. If you tell Ashley that I said that, I'll deny it! :haha:

[Socrates]

Thanks Ashley (and Eric)! Very well done.

Socrates, here's a pic of my mother's Rambler from the early '60s (with a little help from Clean), and a pic of me in front of it. We managed to get from NJ to FL in this thing!

Then my father smashed it up... One less Rambler!

Hey, you were a cute kid! :haha::haha::haha:

I had a '67 Rambler Rebel SST. Good looking machine, red exterior with black simulated leather interior. That was the last year that the Rebel was a Rambler submodel. In 1968, the same vehicle was simply a Rebel. I always maintained that SST meant Stanley STeamer. In 10,000 miles, I went through eight head gaskets and three heads, each time with steam billowing out the tail pipe. I couldn't convince them that the block was warped. Finally, my dad put on two gaskets and that solved the problem but performance suffered.

[Socrates]

I won't tell her either! lol.

And thank you. I am happy to see a positive response to this type of tutorial, so I will definitely make sure to have more of them offered.

Please feel free to let me know what else you would like to see.

I never said that!

I'm still investigating PSE-8. It would be so much easier if I knew what I was doing!

[plugsnpixels]

I "were", yes! Oh well...

[Mightec]

Hi Ashley
Whilst, I can see the benefit of a .pdf tutorial, myself I prefer video, just proves the point that you can't please everybody all of the time. A second point, and I may have done something wrong, but when I printed the tutorial it came out with a black background, not very environmentally friendly. I realise that your website is in this format but I would have thought that it would be better to print the .pdf file with a white background. Also would it be better if the printed pages where numbered.

[plugsnpixels]

Mike, you didn't mention your OS but Macs using Safari under Leopard can drop out the background via a checkbox in the Print dialog – at least when saving to PDF (which you can then print normally). Printing directly without the background may be controlled by your particular printer's driver.

Mike