Please Help! Grainy pics!

[Sleeping Beauty fan]

We just got home from a Magical vacation and put our pictures on the computer. As we were looking through them, we realized they all look grainy. I am freaking out a bit! What could cause this? Is there any way to fix it? We used the same digital camera we've had for a few years. Thanks for any help!!

 

[Pop Daddy]

I thought you had granny pics

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

The folks on the photography board can probably help with this. They have alot of great advice. I've lurked on occassion.

 

[ktpool]

I am not sure how to fix it...but it sounds like your resolution was changed.

Hopefully Eeyore'sthebest is right and someone on the Photography board can help!!

Good luck

 

[pisco]

More than likely the camera was set at a higher ISO than normal which will introduce digital noise to your images.

The good news is that there are a couple of excelent programs you can get for free that will help with this problem. Noise Ninja and Neat Image. I use Neat Image myself as I prefer the interface but both program do an excellent job of reducing digital noise. I would recommend downloading them both and giving them a try to see which one you like better. If you have a large number of images to clean up it would be worth purchasing your favoriate of the two as the pay verions allow you to batch process as many images as you want. That would probably svae you many hours of work.

Good luck in rescuing your pictures.

 

[Laura]

Here's another free program (the Community Edition at the bottom) that can remove graininess from pics:
http://www.imagenomic.com/downloadstep3.asp

I'll show you my results:
Before

After

Was your camera set on Auto or did you accidentally set it to a low-light scene mode or something like that?

 

[Miranda Danda]

Don't mind me. I am just doing a double take. For some odd reason I thought the thread title was "Granny Panties"