How to Fix and Make Photos Less Grainy

Imagine that you capture the first time your child begins walking, but only to find out that the picture got all blurry and grainy. You will be so annoyed considering the importance of that picture. Well, there is nothing to worry about as the blurry photo issue can easily be solved. The article features every aspect of grainy photos from scratch. It includes making a picture less grainy, why that happens, and how to solve it with & without using Photoshop. The article also features some useful tips to prevent the issue.

Why my digital photos are Grainy?

A blurry image can ruin all your candid moments and special memories. Numerous reasons contribute to the situation where your photo gets grainy. The typical and more frequent cause is photography lighting. But before we get into that in detail, you should know all about the grainy photo.

What does grainy mean in photography?

In analog photography, silver was the essential element to cover the plastic film to make the picture more light-sensitive. Its main function was to absorb the sunlight and also helped in the low-light areas as per different lSO settings. So, a grainy image appears when your camera sensor increases the light available to show the image.

Grain/blur (or sometimes referred to as noise) in the photo can be decreased by adjusting the way you capture the picture. As briefly mentioned earlier, a high ISO setting is a common cause of grain in an image.

What makes clear pictures look grainy or blurry?

What you thought to be a perfect ‘clear’ picture might come out as blurry or grainy. As we tend to capture a candid photo, a grainy photo is a common outcome, whether it's night or day. Moreover, people don’t have access to a studio like lighting as professional photographers do. So, when you are wondering why do my pictures look grainy, you know precisely why!

Why do camera pictures look grainy?

Images taken in daylight are less grainy than the images captured at night. A grainy photo is a result of various factors. Some crucial reasons that lead to the grainy images are lack of lighting options, small sensors, ISO settings, and camera type.

How can I fix grainy photos without using Photoshop?

You can’t expect to take the same candid moment twice as the moment has passed. Once you capture a blurry picture, it is saved as a blurry photo in the memory card unless you fix it. In such a scenario, Adobe Photoshop serves as the best application to fix the grainy images.

If Photoshop isn’t compatible with your computer and you’re thinking about making photos less grainy, there are other reliable alternatives. Here are some useful methods to fix grainy photos.

Use a Photo Repair tool

While numerous ways can be used to fix the grainy effect in a photo, Stellar Photo repair software serves as the best bet in repairing the corrupt photo. Irrespective of your operating system, it can improve all photos, whether it’s JPG or JPEG format file. A hard drive to a flash drive or any other data storage medium repairs corrupt JPEG files stored at any storage device from a memory card.

Use Adobe Lightroom

Speaking of grainy and fuzzy pictures, Adobe Lightroom is a useful software application that repairs sandy corruption in an image. Now, if you want to know how to make photos less grainy, the following steps will help you.

Step 1: Launch the Adobe Lightroom application on your system.

Step 2: Now, open the photo in the application.

Step 3: Select the option named ‘Detail’ in the right panel.

Step 4: Under the ‘Noise Reduction’ tab, there will be two options — Luminarc and Color.

Step 5: Adjust the noise reduction bars in the Luminarc using ‘Detail’ and the ‘Contrast’ option. Follow this step until you get rid of the grainy effect.

Step 6: Similarly, on the right side of the panel, adjust the ‘Slider’ tab. You can check the view on the right panel. If it looks like you got the desirable photo with a reduced grainy effect, you can save the edited picture.

How to make pictures less grainy with Photoshop

As mentioned earlier, Adobe Photoshop is one of the best applications to repair grainy pictures. While the grainy effect of any image is not entirely achievable, with Photoshop, you will fix the blurry photo to some extent. It is equipped with a built-in feature that reduces noise in the pictures and repairs images.

If you have just started learning Adobe Photoshop, you can use the CS6 version to learn the application's basics. It offers several key shortcuts as it provides an efficient approach to learn the basics of photo editing. Moreover, ‘Photoshop 7.0’ is one of the best versions to learn Photoshop editing tools from scratch.

Now, if you want to know how to make a picture less grainy, you must download the application. As the installation completes, launch the applications and follow the steps mentioned below.

Step 1: Open the blurry picture on the application.

Step 2: Tap on the ‘Filter’ tab on the top bar and click on ‘Noise’ followed by ‘Reduce Noise.’

Step 3: Reduce Noise option contains three sliders, including Reduce Color Noise, Strength, and other features.

Step 4: Adjust these settings until you get rid of grains in the image to some extent.

Step 5: You can check the outcome on the screen's right side by clicking on ‘Remove JPEG Artifact.’

Step 6: Once you get rid of the photo's grainy effect, tap on ‘OK’ and save the edited image.

Also, you can compare the before and after pictures to see the effect. While you might think that your picture is not free of grain, but it will be less prominent in comparison. Moreover, you cannot fully eliminate noise from the picture, especially in concert photography photos.

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