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I'm editing my night shots in Lightroom and use Google Nik Collection Dfine2 to reduce the noise.. Noise reducing in Dfine is the last item in my workflow, and when I export image .jpg it has poor quality, I tried exporting without noise reduction (Dfine2) and quality is better.. So what is the problem? Can I somehow export with high quality Noise Reduced image? enter image description hereenter image description here

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    \$\begingroup\$ That looks more like color banding due to lower bit-depth and jpeg compression than noise. Such banding often looks very similar to chrominance noise. \$\endgroup\$
    – Michael C
    Apr 29, 2017 at 1:21
  • \$\begingroup\$ I gues I need to change export options \$\endgroup\$
    – Arkadi
    Apr 29, 2017 at 8:58
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    \$\begingroup\$ Yup, JPEG Quality was 60% in export options, set 100% and everything is fine, thanks \$\endgroup\$
    – Arkadi
    Apr 29, 2017 at 9:02

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That looks more like color banding due to lower bit-depth and jpeg compression than noise. Such banding often looks very similar to chrominance noise.

Increase the JPEG quality when you export so that it isn't as heavily compressed and the issue should be minimized.

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