It used to be that a third party noise reduction software like Noise Ninja was necessary to lessen noise in photos. However, once Lightroom’s noise reduction capabilities were updated in Version 3 and are still on par with Lightroom Version 5, Lightroom can effectively diminish noise in photos as good as Noise Ninja or any other third party noise reduction...
As an aside from our main workflow, before we discuss the Detail Panel in Lightroom’s Develop module, let’s discuss the basics of a Lightroom Sharpening workflow. A sharpening workflow generally consists of three different types of image sharpening: capture sharpening, creative sharpening and output sharpening. The gist of a sharpening workflow is to limit the amount of sharpening we add...