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October 23, 2019
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Grainy Photos when cross-developing in Photoshop

  • October 23, 2019
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Hello there. First off, I shoot using a Nikon D3400 and only shoot in RAW format. When I'm developing my photos, I start in lightroom, and only when absolutely necessary do I jump the photo over to photoshop to do extreme editing. The problem is, whenever I do so, the photo ends up being so grainy that not even noise reduction edits can fix it and it looks like I took the photo with an old flip phone. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? I'm hoping it's something simple, hopefully a setting I messed with a not a glitch in the program, as I can't wait for them to fix it. I have an important gig this weekend, and it's going to involve a lot of moving the photos to photoshop, as it's a green screen photoshoot. I know that I could export the photo as a JPG then pull it into photoshop. But I would much rather do things with the plugin. It's faster and less memory. Plus there are less steps, and time is going to be crucial. 

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    ManiacJoe
    Inspiring
    October 24, 2019

    Mac or Windows? Which version?

    Which exact NUMBER version of Lightroom and exact NUMBER version of Photoshop?

    Are you using the "edit in Photoshop" command to go from LR to PS to LR?

     

    Participant
    October 24, 2019

    I'm on a Macbook Pro. Running Catalina Lightroom Classic 8.4.1, and Photoshop CC 20.0.7. I use the "Edit in Photoshop" command. Yes.

     

    As for the screenshot, as soon as I find a photo it happened on, I will do so. I don't send to photoshop often, so I can't remember the last time I had to. 

    Conrad_C
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 23, 2019

    What types of edits are applied to the raw file? Some edits can amplify noise, such as increasing Exposure or Shadows by a significant amount. Can you post a screen shot of the Develop panel settings for an image that this happens to? Or the History panel if it isn't too long?