Photoshop RAW Plugin 4.1 [Updated]

[raptor]

Luminance = grain like noise and chrominance is the colour noise (the greeb/red/blue specks on the darker perts on on light edges) Basically luminance noise is pretty similar to film grain while chrominance noise are colours that are not supposed to be there. I tend to do a low  chrominance reduction while leaving the luminance noise alone. The noise control is pretty good anyways

[hwchoy]

thanx. I have been trying low for both. Do you see a difference if you do NR before and after RAW Sharpening?

[raptor]

I do find even at low level the chomiance noise reduction works well for those shot at ISO 400 and above. Did you enable high quality previews to see the effects of the miore/noise reduction? I do find it is quite sharp after the reduction...

[hwchoy]

Yes I did preview, the result is pretty good especially on human skin. Right now I will do NR first, then adjust sharpening.

[Michael]

Update for all PhotoShop CS3 users, Adobe Camera Raw 4.1 is out!

For Macintosh: here
For Windows: here

[hwchoy]

CS2 cannot use?

[CanonGrapher]

CS2 cannot use?

the ARC 4.XX series is for CS3 only.  Adobe is still supporting CS2.  You need to use ACR3.XX seies.