Hi,
In the Details panel, I'm wondering how ACR 5.5 applies Noise Reduction (both, luminance and color) on my images. Does it do it globally (no masking)? Or does it calculate a surface mask (that could be based on the inverse of the edge mask that one can setup using the Masking slider) and apply NR to surfaces only?
One more question. Is ACR's process pipeline taking care of NR before or after Sharpening? I'm asking because, from UI perspective, the noise sliders are after the sharpening ones (leading to confusion, at least for me).
Thanks.
-stéphane