5O FAST PHOTOSHOP" CS TECHNIQUES- P11: Adobe Photoshop CS has more than 550 menu items that can be accessed from the main menu bar. Additionally, it has 18 feature-rich tool palettes including the Toolbox, which has more than 65 tools. Plus, Adobe Photoshop CS offers a .plethora of tool presets, color swatches, actions, styles, brushes, blend modes, and much more. | This page left blank. REMOVING DIGITAL NOISE WITH DFINE 4O-2 ABOUT THE IMAGE Eastern Box Turtle in OrangeCanon EOS 1 D handheld with 52OEX flash 100mm Macro lens Fine Image Quality setting ISO 3200 f @1 90 2 464 x 1 648 pixels . MB A heavy downpour can often set turtles out walking as was the case with this handsome Eastern Box turtle in North Carolina. There was heavy cloud cover and the trees in the forest blocked most of the sunlight so there was little light to shoot the turtle. Yet the rich orange and brown colors of the turtle set against the oranges and browns of autumn made the turtle an attractive subject. In an effort to not overpower the existing light a small amount of ffl flash was used from a flash mounted high above the camera to bring out important details. To get adequate light an ISO 3200 setting was used which added considerable digital noise to the image. Of the in photography I personally would love to see the between settings and digital noise go away with the introduc- tion of new technology. The challenge of removing unwanted detail digital noise and keeping wanted detail important photographicdetail is a difficult one-unless you are using a digital noise removal tool such as multimedia s digital noise reduction plug-in Dfine . 273 Chapter 7 Using Plug-Ins Dime has been developed for Windows 98 ME 2000 XP and Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X systems. It supports both 8-bit and 16-bit digital images with the software utilizing full 16-bit image capabilities. When it is used on 8-bit images Dfine uses an internal conversion procedure that allows the image to be with the advantages of a 16-bit image thereby eliminating the histogram gapping that can occur on an 8-bit image. If you need to remove digital noise this is a valuable plug-in. Dfine can be used to remove digital noise without the use of camera-specific profiles however you will get much better results if you purchase the camera for your camera Depending on your .