Noise reduction software?

[Snurk71]

Anyone have any recommendations for noise reduction software? I have some pictures taken at 1600 ISO with some noise (not a lot). If there's an easy, magical software out there that will clean them up a little bit, I'd like to try it out.

Thanks

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Some popular choices are Noise Ninja and Neat Image. I use Neat Image and am relatively happy with it.

 

[allyn]

i also use neat image. free (with limitations) for personal use!

 

[°O°Joe]

I use Noise Ninja. I normally only use free software, but I liked this one so much I bought it... Here's a quick example of a "cleaned up" picture with Noise Ninja:

Before Noise Ninja:

After Noise Ninja:

 

[AZ JazzyJ]

I'm also a big Noise Ninja fan. I recently bought the software as a last resort because some of the night soccer game shots I had taken were way too grainy. Running them through Noise Ninja I was totally amazed. Definitely one of the best investments I have ever made.

Jeff

 

[JR6ooo4]

Noise Ninjae for me as well. Great batch processing routine.

Mikeeee

 

[Snurk71]

So for either Noise Ninja or Neat Image, can you run jpgs through these applications or just the raw versions of a picture?

Also, how much fine tuning is required on the settings? Can you pretty much let the application defaults take over, set it once for the camera you use, or do you need to fine tune each picture/batch?

 

[tinksdad]

Noiseware is pretty good as well. IMO better than Noise Ninja.

 

[°O°Joe]

So for either Noise Ninja or Neat Image, can you run jpgs through these applications or just the raw versions of a picture?

Also, how much fine tuning is required on the settings? Can you pretty much let the application defaults take over, set it once for the camera you use, or do you need to fine tune each picture/batch?

For Noise Ninja, it can be very advanced, but it can be quite simple as well. I prefer the simple fix. Just two buttons to click. First you hit "profile image" and then you hit "remove noise"... for me this does the job 95% of the time. Very quick and simple.

 

[AZ JazzyJ]

So for either Noise Ninja or Neat Image, can you run jpgs through these applications or just the raw versions of a picture?

Also, how much fine tuning is required on the settings? Can you pretty much let the application defaults take over, set it once for the camera you use, or do you need to fine tune each picture/batch?

You can run JPG through Noise Ninja without any problems in both single and batch modes.

Jeff

 

[allyn]

the free version of neat image only takes jpgs.

never realized noise ninja was so popular! i might have to check it out!

 

[JR6ooo4]

with ninja you can do full manual even on seperate color channels, or full auto profiling by camera or "create profile from image". So if you have shots in a folder from more than one camera you can still batch process the whole folder.

Mikeeee

 

[safetymom]

I use define by Nik. It does a great job.