With that said if you do have noise with an image this is something that can help depending on the damage of the photo and the noise within your channels.

First Start by opening your image and going into the Red Channel and applying a surface blur to your Red Channel with a radius of 10 and a Threshold of 12

see image below.

Your going to attack noise on a channel basis so next is going to be your Green Channel with a Radius of 8 and a Threshold of 9

Now it is time for you last Channel the Blue Channel and it has a Radius 5 and a Threshold of 10 as seen below.

This Process adds a very Blurred/Plastic look which is very  non pleasing look to me but to try and fix that issue the next step is to try and bring out some of the details with and Un-Sharpen Mask as seen below.

Here is the Before and After below.

Before

After

If this technique does not work for your image I highly recommend the plug-ins listed below.

They have really came a long way with noise reduction technology.

Noise Ninja
Topaz DeNoise

Take the original image an duplicate it.   Image>Duplicate

On the duplicated Copy Hit (Ctrl or Command on a Mac + L) to pull up levels.

Grab the white triangle under Input Levels and drag it to the left until it hits 200 instead of 255.

No go under Filter>Gaussian Blur>Take the radius and set it to 7.0 and hit enter.

Your image should now look the the image below.

Save the copy image as a .psd and close it.

Go back to your original file and take the Pattern “click for original”

Now make sure your pattern layer is selected and go under

Filter>Distort>Displace

Make sure your settings are set to

Horizontal Scale: 10

Vertical Scale: 10

Displacement Map: Stretch to fit

Undefined Areas: Repeat Edge Pixels

Now Click on the Pattern again and set its blend mode to Overlay and its Opacity to 25%

Make sure your pattern is still highlighted and click on the mask icon at the bottom of the layers palette.

The Mask will come up white but if you click on the mask and hit

Ctrl or Command “Mac” + I

It will invert the mask.

Now make sure your foreground color is set to White and hit B on the keyboard to pull up your brush and paint on the body where you want the pattern to be applied.

I hope Everyone enjoyed this tutorial please don’t forget to comment if you have any questions.

If you have never worked with LAB before it can be very confusing but this is just the tip of the Iceberg and can be very helpful for subtle but vivid color corrections.

1. Open any image and go under Image>Modes>Lab Color

2. Go into your curves in your adjustments or for short hit (Ctrl or Command on the Mac + M)

3. Once in your curve palette  make sure that your curves look like the images bellow.

Lightness

A

B

Here is the before and after as you can see the difference is subtle but with all greatly edited photo’s its the subtle touches that make the retouching go from amateur to professional.

Where are you from?

What was your academic path before coming to the Digital Media Program? I wanted to be a nurse but wearing scrubs didn’t fit me. So I decided to have a career change.

What did you want to be when you were younger? Is that still an interest of yours? I wanted to wrestle.

What are your strengths on and why are you passionate about it? One of my biggest strengths is that  I am a go getter. I like more action, not so much words.

What is your favorite part of Digital Media? My favorite part is working with different Adobe software; for example flash.

What or who are your influences? I am influenced by God. He gives me strength to excel in anything that I pursue.  With him, I know I can not fail.

What is your future plan? My future plan is to either be a designer in my field or be in design management. I also wouldn’t mind being an instructor.

What advice would you give a prospective Digital Media student? If you don’t like to take risks, this isn’t the industry for you.

Interfaces 2010 is an annual conference promoting game design, graphic design, and digital media industries. Attendees last year included industry professionals, creative professionals, faculty from local and national colleges and universities, as well as students. In 2009, we had over 400 people attend, but we expect 2010 to be a bigger and better event that will challenge, excite, and motivate participants.

2010 Speakers include:

Max Voelker – ZeeGee Games, Associate Producer
Brian Menze – Obsidian Entertainment, Senior Artist
Chris Arnold – Carbine Studios, Lead World Artist
Christian Allen – WB Games, Lead Game Designer
Greg Foertsch – Firaxis Games, Lead Artist
Adam Sparkes – Sparkes Photography
Rob Eckert – Ringside Creative Motion Designer
Dennis & Christina Jacobs – Perfect Laughter
Oliver Hoffman – Creative Director
Julie Lang – Campbell-Ewald, Design Director
Trevor Anulewicz – Vectorform, Creative & Experience Director
Peter D’Agosinto – DP & Company, Associate Creative Director

http://www.w3schools.com/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/17/adobe-flash-tutorials-best-of/
http://www.tutorialized.com/
http://www.entheosweb.com/website_design/default.asp
http://www.good-tutorials.com/

AKA:

Where are you from? Macomb, MI

What was your academic path before coming to the Digital Media Program?I received a scholarship out of high school to study animation with the imagineers in Disney. From there I went on to receive a Degree in Graphic Design and was very much active in the corporate world of business. With the economic hardships we are facing with corporate business, it made me to want to become better at what I don’t know and to per cue other fields of Media design I know I can be good in.

What did you want to be when you were younger? I have always, since I can remember, wanted to be a creative designer. Anything I did, had to have some sort of creative thought incorporated.  

What is something most people would be surprised to learn about you? I think that most people would be surprised to learn that I love to cook and have a culinary minor.

What are your strengths on and why are you passionate about it? My strengths I would have to say are Art Directing. Being able to see what something can be before it’s developed and say we need to do it this way using this technique or look at someone’s work and help offer suggestions on making it better. Being able to design and help those bring their ideas to life is what makes it so passionate for me.

What is your favorite part of Digital Media? Editing Audio is a bit challenging, but I love every aspect of digital media. The more I can learn, the more I can offer.

What or who are your influences? Shane Seminole Mielke is who just fires me up every time I see his work. He specializes in Art Direction, Graphic Design, Motion and Photography. Check out his personal page @ http://www.shanemielke.com/work.php.

What is your future plan? I am currently working in the field still as an Art Director and would like to go back, after this degree to obtain a masters in design and teach. While pursuing this, I still plan on freelancing and launching my own design studio that will specializing in the three major design fields…Graphic Design, Photography and Digital Media while offering PR and marketing support for every campaign.

What advice would you give a prospective Digital Media student? Learn as much as you can and be great in everything you do. You won’t break it. Best thing about being a digital artist is you can start with a clean canvas at anytime…so don’t be scared to take chances and try new things. Explore every opportunity the software and tools available to us has to offer. Don’t be afraid to ask someone for help…chances are you know something they don’t and both of you can benefit from talking.

Click Here to take survey

Detroit Digital Media Introduction from DetroitDigitalMedia on Vimeo.