1ScrewLoose
Member
There are no stupid questions, only stupid people.
I have a fall foliage picture taken with the M8. Where brilliant red foliage (with individual leaves only a few pixels wide) is displayed in front of a blue sky, the individual leaves are outlined in white pixels. It's present in both the JPG and the RAW, and is really obvious even when not pixel-peeping. I'm assuming this is an aliasing problem -- the high spatial frequency of the red vs. blue pattern is getting mapped to some other weird frequency, or possibly it's an artefact of the Bayer interpolation. Either way, it's a PITA.:bang:
The picture is insipid from an artistic standpoint, but illustrative of some things I need to illustrate for non-artistic purposes, and I'd like to salvage it somehow. And I'd like to learn in case it happens again. If there's a trick in PS, it's eluded my fumbling attempts. What's the state of the art in software for this kind of noise reduction? Any favorites out there?
I have a fall foliage picture taken with the M8. Where brilliant red foliage (with individual leaves only a few pixels wide) is displayed in front of a blue sky, the individual leaves are outlined in white pixels. It's present in both the JPG and the RAW, and is really obvious even when not pixel-peeping. I'm assuming this is an aliasing problem -- the high spatial frequency of the red vs. blue pattern is getting mapped to some other weird frequency, or possibly it's an artefact of the Bayer interpolation. Either way, it's a PITA.:bang:
The picture is insipid from an artistic standpoint, but illustrative of some things I need to illustrate for non-artistic purposes, and I'd like to salvage it somehow. And I'd like to learn in case it happens again. If there's a trick in PS, it's eluded my fumbling attempts. What's the state of the art in software for this kind of noise reduction? Any favorites out there?
1ScrewLoose
Member
As added information, because it occurred to me too -- though it looks like oversharpening in the image, the outlining is still there even when one eliminates the default sharpening in Camera Raw. Of course, one can make it even worse by increasing the sharpening...
BillCB
Member
Try a different RAW converter - I find C1 much more friendly when it comes to moire, for example, so maybe it will help your problem too. You can download a trial version for 30 days free.
Bill
Bill
Erik Gunst Lund
Kind regards Erik
Capture One has a Moire filter that works perfectly with M8 raw files.
Also purple fringing and blooming are easily removed, it's like it was made for the camera,,,
The best software for M8 IMHO, even compared to CS or Bibble Pro
1ScrewLoose
Member
Thanks Bill and Erik! I will give it a try. I guess I'm learning the hard way why those of you who really know what you're doing with digital are fussy about RAW conversions.