Noise cleaning

danalec99 · Oct 21, 2004

Which software do you use to clean the noise?

Karalee · Oct 21, 2004

I use Helicon because its easy to use. Neat image is also good.

GerryDavid · Oct 21, 2004

Ive used Helicon a few times lately, it works nice but it does make the image soft, so what I did was clean an image up, save it as a bmp, put it in the original file as a layer, and masked out the areas that I want sharper detail on.

markc · Oct 21, 2004

I use the noise reduction built into BreezeBrowser for my 10D. I haven't had to go beyond that. I don't know how it campares to other software, though.

Digital Matt · Oct 21, 2004

I've used Neatimage, but imho it didn't do anything more than a gaussian blur.

j_mcquillen · Oct 31, 2004

Photoshop has a filter called 'smart blur' (I think) that I've used a few times - makes it easy to mask all the areas you want to keep sharp.

Goofup · Oct 31, 2004

The best noise reduction I've seen is the camera itself- shoot at the lowest ISO you can to keep noise down in the first place!

My picks, in order of preference:
Heilcon
Noiseware
Neatimage
PSP 9
Elements 3.0

Finally, this should keep you busy for a while- all the noise reduction software compared:
http://www.michaelalmond.com/Articles/noise.htm

Geronimo · Oct 31, 2004

I use Neatimage as welll, but try to avoid it. I agree with Matt that is just seems to do a gaussian blur. I have heard things about Noise Ninja

danalec99 · Nov 13, 2004

Thanks everyone for the inputs!

danalec99 · Nov 13, 2004

Hats off to Noise Ninja.... Just tried it out.... unbelievable results!!!!! :thumbsup:

Thanks Geromino!

Unimaxium · Nov 14, 2004

Somebody has made a set of free photoshop actions that reduce noise in digital images. They work fairly well for me, but not perfectly. They're good if you don't want to pay anything (apart from Photoshop). You can get them here:

http://rondayview.com/000002.php