I read this article the other day and in it describes a technique to increase the amount of detail and to reduce the noise of digital photographic images. The method requires that one take multiple images of the same scene, ie. burst mode, while hand-holding the camera and trying to be relatively still.

I tested the method described in the aforementioned article with a set of 28 images I took with my Asus smartphone. The overall process basically consists of:

loading the images into layer stack in Photoshop
resizing the images by 200%
auto-align the layers
convert the layers into smart object
blend the layers using mean mode
flatten the layers
apply smart sharpening on the image
resize image back down to the original size

Here is my result after a long processing time in Photoshop, and as you can see below, the processed image contains much less noise and more fine details whereas the unprocessed image is very noisy.

Processed image

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Unprocessed image

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Although this technique is very time consuming, the result is worth the effort. I can only imagine it will be a matter of time before smartphones will be able to process the images at a faster rate. A downside to this method is that it will only work optimally for scenes with little to no motion.

Equipment Used

Camera: Asus Zenfone 4
Software: Adobe Photoshop CC

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That's cool. I don't notice too much improvement in detail but the difference in noise is huge. To do that without losing detail is great.

Yeah it's a great way to reduce noise without loosing detail!

Strange. I clicked on the unprocessed image like and the image looks upright but the one in the post seems lying down. Guess something weird on the steemit again.

So it's just not me?

I've seen it happens before and asked and was told something weird happen when they post.

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Interesting. I may have to try that sometime, though I rarely use my smartphone camera. It has a 20mp sensor, but poor dynamic range and low-light performance. It looks like the method you used might help with that.

I think I may do this for all my future photos (if time permits)!