How to Remove Noise in Lightroom Mobile? – Beginners Tutorial
Struggling with grainy or noisy photos? In this beginner-friendly tutorial, I’ll show you how to remove noise in Lightroom Mobile quickly and effectively. Whether it’s low-light shots or high ISO images, you’ll learn step-by-step how to smooth out your photos while keeping the important details intact. Perfect for anyone looking to enhance their mobile photography skills. Let’s dive into the easy techniques to transform your noisy photos into crisp, clean images!
This video is from our Lightroom Mobile Editing Course.
Video Summary
In this tutorial, the instructor covers the Detail Panel in Lightroom Mobile, specifically focusing on how to sharpen images professionally without introducing unwanted digital noise. He also touches on finishing touches for contrast and color before deep-diving into the sharpening “masking” trick.
Key Concepts & Tools
- Sharpening & Noise: Sharpening enhances textures but is a “double-edged sword” because it can also enhance grainy noise in flat areas like walls or floors.
- The Masking Trick: This is the most important takeaway. By using the Masking slider, you can restrict sharpening only to high-detail areas (edges and textures) while leaving smooth areas untouched.
- Luminance Noise Reduction: Used to smooth out “grainy” noise. The instructor warns to use this sparingly, as overdoing it creates a “plasticky” or blurry look.
- Color Noise Reduction: Specifically targets the multicolored (often red or green) speckles common in low-light or long-exposure shots.
Time Stamps
- 0:00 – Initial adjustments: Adding extra Contrast and Vibrance to give the raw image more “punch.”
- 1:19 – Introduction to the Detail Panel and the Sharpening tool.
- 2:30 – Demonstrating how aggressive sharpening creates noise artifacts on flat surfaces.
- 3:30 – The “Hidden” Masking Trick: How to use a two-finger gesture (holding the slider with one finger and touching the screen with another) to see the black-and-white mask.
- 4:44 – Understanding the Mask: White areas receive sharpening; Black areas are protected.
- 6:47 – Defining Radius and Detail settings (recommending defaults to avoid artifacts).
- 7:32 – Noise Reduction: Smoothing out grain and the importance of waiting for the mobile app to process the change.
- 9:48 – Color Noise Reduction: How to identify and remove colored pixel noise from hot sensors.
- 11:10 – Final Before and After: Comparing the original flat raw file to the edited, sharpened version.
