Roxking

thank you! and yes I'm learning pretty much everything! and very eager I might add I'm excited to start one of the classes next! do you have a cleaning program recommend?

Thanks for the Tutorial. I was definitely removing noise a different way. I experiment with a few photos and Damiens technique worked very nice!

I have a Mac laptop running os x el capitan and Lightroom 6. It is over 2 years old, and has 4GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 366.4GB free out of 4GB. The last time I shut down was more than 2 days ago. I have never run a cleanup program.

Yes still noisy if i export and check at 100%. I wasn't "exactly" checking for noise. I would zoom in and then i would correct the eyes and enhance. I would notice that they looked very crips. I actually just downloaded the 30 day trial for PS Elements. I have no experience with PS.

Im new to Photography. I was "told" to start with light room before tackling PS. I've been using light room for several months now with now problems. I noticed about a month ago when I went in to edit my photos that they looked rather grainy/noisy. I thought perhaps it was a bad photo I took, maybe just out of focus. I checked a couple other photos from a different shoot that I had already edited. I remember feeling rather pleased with myself after looking through the gallery. When editing those photos they were very clear and sharp! Not now! they look grainy. I've been on multiple forums trying to figure out what happened. Did I mess up a setting? Did i hit a wrong buttom? Ive had many responses to the problems. The most response was to un click the Use of Graphics Processor in LR preferences. The overall opinion I got was that i was zooming in 2:1 instead of 1:1 and that their will always be noise. I was told just not to do that. However I REALLY fell strongly that something changed in my photos. Any help or advice?!