grainy pictures please help!!!?

Question

I must have messed up the setting on my camera because i took about 200 pictures of my nephew that is now out of town and they all look bad! there is a lot of noise in the picture i have photoshop elements 7 but cant figure out how to help at all!!! i just need them to look good so i can give the pictures to my sister for christmas thanks to all that help

Answer 1

My advice is going to depend on how much noise there is. Without seeing one, I don't know where to start. There are a lot of different things you can do. It may just be a simple matter of running it through a reduce noise filter, or it may need more extreme retouching/air brushing by hand. Is there any way you can show an example photo?

Answer 2

I'm afraid I don't know elements 7, but if the program has a 'noise reduction' filter, then you should try messing around with that. Hard to recommend a solution without seeing an example...



For future reference, graininess typically occurs when the ISO setting of your camera is high. Many cameras start to show a bit of graininess in the images at around ISO 400 and photos will become much grainier as the ISO increases. High ISO values are good when you are in a dim environment and can't use flash. Lower the ISO in bright environments and when doing flash photography.

Answer 3

This explains just about every way to remove noise using Elements.

http://www.which.co.uk/advice/photoshop-elements-reduce-noise-in-photos/index.jsp



There are also add-ons for Elements like Noise Ninja and Neat Image.

Answer 4

next time you should probably expose for your nephew's face instead of for the background (take a close-up meter reading of your nephew's face)