ContrastMaster sometimes brings out the noise in my photos. How can I avoid that?
As ContrastMaster lets you boost the contrast in a photo to a high extent, it can make imperfections in bad quality photos more clearly. You can try to avoid that by applying a less intense ContrastMaster effect to such photos, removing the effect in shadows with the Shadows slider on the Mask tab sheet in ContrastMaster or sizing down photos before you apply ContrastMaster. Often it helps a lot to apply noise reduction to the image before or after you apply ContrastMaster. Using JPEG artifact removal before running ContrastMaster will also help a lot with highly compressed photos. However, it would be the best if you try to get the best image quality from your camera or scanner in the first place.
