Noise Removal - What's your method?

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One thing that I do that is considered new and novel, heresy for some, in print workshops is to view the image at print size, typically 33%, after editing and resizing has been done. In smaller prints noise dissappears all on its own and it is possible to gauge the amount of sharpening to apply for the media type. One interesting side effect of more megapixels has been the growing need to soften massively reduced image sizes for online social media. Sometimes I forget and the images appear overly sharpened when in fact none had been applied.

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