Alan Browne wrote:
David J Taylor wrote:
"Alan Browne" wrote in message
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Having said that, noise that looks like film grain can even enhance
the mood of an image... of course noise can always be added in
photoshop but cannot be removed very easily.

Alan, even my Paint Shop Pro from a few versions back has a "Digital
Camera Noise Removal" feature (I prefer "reduction" rather than
"removal") - surely PhotoShop has something similar? G

Good one. Are you happy? No it doesn't. You have to buy 3rd party
s/w. Maybe Adobe are being bribed to keep it out?

I tried one of the noise reduction programs and found it to make things
too smooth (in plain areas) and wipe out fine detail in other areas.
Gave up on it. (Noise Ninja I believe...).

That's what Neat Image does on its default settings. But it also has a
great variety of adjustable parameters to allow you to fine tune the
trade offs between various aspects of noise reduction, fine detail
preservation, sharpening, etc., plus a variety of prepackaged custom
sets and the ability to create your own. Takes quite a bit of
learning, but well worth while. Different cameras, different lenses,
and different kinds of subject and lighting can call for quite large
differences in noise reduction adjustments.

Doesn't Noise Ninja offer customisable noise reduction
parameterisation?

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Chris Malcolm