Problem with noise?

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Took some pictures in low light, high ISO resulting in noise. Converted form RAW to JPEG in lightroom, removed noise using Noise Ninja. Back to lightroom to finish processing. All looked great. Then finally copied onto a CD to give to someone.

BUT.....before I hand over the CD, I thought Id have a quick peep on works PC and they look rubbish :(

What happened? Any ideas?
 
Agreed impossible to comment without seeing a pic off the cd.
 
Chaz Photos said:
With out seeing them hard to tell
Did you work on the RAW to remove noise?
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I did a straight conversion from raw to jpeg from Lightroom. Noise ninja only works with jpegs & tiffs

perhaps I should use CS4 and convert to tiffs?

I'll see if I can upload something here....back soon
 
Might it be that having converted the raw to jpg for NN, then did a bit more in LR, then exported again as jpg, that the compression and lossy nature of jpg has messed them up ? Might be better working in tif till the last minute ?
 
When you went back to LR to finish the processing did you import the previously exported jpegs or continue working with the previous files?

That would explain why the noise came back for the final export...
 
pxl8 said:
When you went back to LR to finish the processing did you import the previously exported jpegs or continue working with the previous files?

That would explain why the noise came back for the final export...
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pretty sure I didnt...I saved them from Ninja into a separate folder. Can dble check when I get home
 
jgs001 said:
Might it be that having converted the raw to jpg for NN, then did a bit more in LR, then exported again as jpg, that the compression and lossy nature of jpg has messed them up ? Might be better working in tif till the last minute ?
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could be....I also resized them. Perhaps I messed up there too

Odd how they looked fine on my home PC though after all the processing?
 
Pretty sure you didn't what?

Import the new files?
 
pxl8 said:
Pretty sure you didn't what?

Import the new files?
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sorry unclear....Im sure I worked on the jpegs saved from after I'd worked on them in ninja
 
Jpeg should be treated as an output format, not a working format, eash time you change a jpeg you lose a bit more quality each time.

My suggestion would be to do the RAW conversions and all the processing in Lightroom, then, after all other processin has been finished export to Noise Ninja as TIFF, then re import to Lightroom to export as jpegs.
 
BeHappy said:
Odd how they looked fine on my home PC though after all the processing?
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and when I got home and opened the files copied onto the disc they were absolutley fine.....must be my office PC:shrug: Strange.......

Thanks for the advice anyway and I think I will take Craikeybabys advice next time :thumbs:
 
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