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noise is generally undesirable in photography, and many photographers want to try and reduce it when taking photographs. Noise reduction tends to be about preventing noise in the first place, where as noise removal is a description of post-processing techniques for dealing with noise that is in a photograph.

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What is a good amount of noise reduction to apply in post-processing?

There is no "technically correct" answer either, for a number of reasons: Noise in images varies based on the actual exposure, and unless every image you take is evenly lit across the frame, the rig …
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What is a good amount of noise reduction to apply in post-processing?

To provide another way of looking at the answer: The technically-correct baseline value is none — and then adjust to taste. Noise reduction is inherently destructive of detail, so start without any …
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Why do my photos look like they're painted?

This looks like the effect of noise reduction at high ISOs. Heavy NR is common in compact cameras with small sensors. Fujifilm cameras of that generation did it very well compared to others of the tim …
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Are there Lightroom plugins for noise reduction which work on RAW data?

It sounds like you want to use an alternate noise reduction algorithm integrated into Lightroom's RAW conversion, as an alternate for or addition to the built-in noise reduction. I don't think there …
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