Digital BW, The Print

I would seriously consider looking outside the box for this answer; noise
reduction has not been Adobes strong suit. You may consider looking at
Noiseware Professional by Imagenomic as well as Neat Image. Both can be
stand alone or plug in. Noise is one of those things not so much to be
feared but to be conquered. I am a big user of Noiseware. I also have Neat
Image but use it a quite a bit les often than Noiseware. The price for
either is not much. 

 

Eric Neilsen Photography

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
robert49brake
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:11 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: (Tending toward OT) PhotoAcute Studio
Professional: any real world experienc

 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhit
<mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>
eThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Eric Neilsen" <e.neilsen2@...> 
wrote:
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> Robert, What other noise programs did you try? 

Noise Ninja, one from NIK I believe and another I don't remember (was a
couple of years 
ago, about the time that CS3 came out, ACR 4.0 was the comparison) I tried
them on 
individual images and decided that nothing could save those images (the 3200
ones) and 
passed on the whole idea of third party software and just went back to low
ISO shooting 
with Nikon's in camera noise reduction for long exposures. The idea of using
the multishot 
approach never crossed my mind until I looked at the PhotoAcute program. I
just happened 
to have saved a couple of sets of those 3200 shots that I had thought to run
through HDR 
so they were available to try with the PhotoAcute. 

I should have some time next week to shoot something with the PhotoAcute
multishot 
approach in mind. One thing I noted about the PhotoAcute method was that
color noise was 
extremely reduced without losing any detail at all and that I could further
reduce luminance 
noise in ACR until I was unhappy with the detail loss. I'm not big on 3rd
party software 
having always felt that PS had the technique somewhere inside it but this
looks worth a bit 
of time.

 



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