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chroma noise Last modified: Thursday, February 01, 2007

In digital photography and digital video, chroma noise are fluctuations in color and luminance. Chroma noise is unnatural in appearance in the image or video. Noise reduction software can be used reduce both chroma noise.

AOL Hometown: Television and Video Advice Ideas, hints and inside information to help everyone better understand video and electronics. Digital Content Producer Magazine Film & video production in a multi-platform world. Tutorials - Image Noise Understanding the noise characteristics of a digital camera will help you know how noise will influence your photographs. The following sections discuss the tonal variation of noise, "chroma" and luminance noise, and the frequency and magnitude of image noise. Examples of noise variation based on ISO and color channel are also shown for three different digital cameras.