martinimages
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Noise removal
A question was asked about when to remove noise from the image, before or after conversion.
Usually noise manifest itself as small coloured dots that ruin color images, because we are converting to monochrome the coloured dots of noise become grey scale,
this can have a good effect on printout, as it will not interfere with image detail but add a certain textural quality to smooth areas especially patches of dark when up-sizing images for print.
So the answer to this is "it depends" any noise removal software degrades the look for BW, to smooth, but it might be, say a baby portrait or a model shoot etc, in this case removal of digital grain [noise] would be beneficial to the output.
Personally for my own landscape work i rarely remove noise, I like texture in images.
Martin
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