Maris - thanks very much for the link. This software is a well kept secret
(I hadn't stumbled over it despite frequent searches on this topic), but it
looks very promising indeed.
Even after a little experimentation it gives much better results than any
other method I've tried, and it is less prone to adding artefacts than
Grain Surgery.
If anyone else is looking for a noise/grain/grain-aliasing solution, I
would suggest you take a (long) look. As Maris pointed out, the catches
seem to be:
- doesn't work on TIF's yet, so files have to be converted to/from BMP/JPG
- default settings are too high for my liking, and you DO need to read up
on how to get the best from it
- *very* slow ..then again, perhaps my 366MHz Celeron does need that
upgrade ;-)
- struggles with 'gross' grain-aliasing (- still better than anything else
I've tried)
- still in beta form, but seems stable enough..
- doesn't work on a Mac (obvious cruel comment deleted!)
I particularly like its method of creating profiles for image types, eg I
can set up a filter to suit the grain-aliasing on Superia 400 on
my 2700dpi scanner, or one for a digicam's dark noise, and save them
individually.
And you can't complain about the current price.. :-)
mark t
Maris wrote:
>"Neat Image is a digital filter designed to reduce visible noise in
>digital photographic images."
>
>
>
>It presently supports only JPG and BMP files so you will have to convert
>from TIFF to BMP first, but I wrote them and they responded that they are
>working on TIFF support (though who knows when?).
>
>Do follow their suggestion - print out the Help files (only about 10
>pages) for optimal results.
>
>It is still at the beta stage and is therefore free for now.
>
>Maris
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