neatimage alternatives?

Le 20 Apr 2005 14:11:23 -0700, Bill Hilton a tapoté d'un clavier léger:

When I bought NI a couple of years ago there were four or five
versions, I *think* the free one only worked on jpegs,

At leat now it's working on TIFF

http://www.neatimage.com/featuremap.html

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Marie-Aude
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"Are there any alternatives to neatimage that is just as good but
cheaper/free?"

Digital Toolbox Deluxe is very good and free but it is PhotoShop action
set thus you cannot use it as a standalone application.

http://www.2morrow.dk/75ppi/coolpix/actions/

More information and (comparisons) about noise reduction applications:

http://www.michaelalmond.com/Articles/noise.htm


Markku Virtanen

Bill wrote ...
When I bought NI a couple of years ago there were four or
five versions, I *think* the free one only worked on jpegs

Marie-Aude replies ...
At leat now it's working on TIFF
http://www.neatimage.com/featu=ADremap.html

In the table for Demo (free) mode for 8 bit tiffs it says "+/- **" ...
look below in the fine print and it says "** +/- means input is
supported and output is not" ... which means you can LOAD an 8 bit tiff
and run the program to see what it will look like but you cannot write
out in tiff format, which means it's useless on tiffs for practical
purposes (except as a visual demo). At least that's how I interpret
it, and though it's been 2-3 years since I used the Demo I think that's
how it works.

Bill

peter wrote:

Are there any alternatives to neatimage that is just as good but
cheaper/free?


I didn't realise it was expencive...

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Stacey

peter wrote:

Are there any alternatives to neatimage that is just as good but
cheaper/free?


I didn't realise it was expencive...

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Stacey

peter wrote:
Are there any alternatives to neatimage that is just as good but
cheaper/free?

Paint Shop Pro 9 already has a noise reduction tool that works as well as
or better than Neat Image. As PSP9 includes perspective correction and
chromatic aberration (purple-fringing) reduction, it's very good value
for money.

David

peter wrote:
Are there any alternatives to neatimage that is just as good but
cheaper/free?

Paint Shop Pro 9 already has a noise reduction tool that works as well as
or better than Neat Image. As PSP9 includes perspective correction and
chromatic aberration (purple-fringing) reduction, it's very good value
for money.

David

"Stacey" wrote in message
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peter wrote:

Are there any alternatives to neatimage that is just as good but
cheaper/free?


I didn't realise it was expencive...

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Stacey

Stacey...
I originally downloaded the free plugin for Photoshop which also works with
Corel Photopaint and thought so much of it I bought the full version.

I could have saved my money. The difference of having control over your
settings only slows down the process and doesn't make a great deal of
difference. If you use Photoshop or Photopaint, download the freebe. It's
about as good as it gets.

Douglas

"Stacey" wrote in message
...
peter wrote:

Are there any alternatives to neatimage that is just as good but
cheaper/free?


I didn't realise it was expencive...

--

Stacey

Stacey...
I originally downloaded the free plugin for Photoshop which also works with
Corel Photopaint and thought so much of it I bought the full version.

I could have saved my money. The difference of having control over your
settings only slows down the process and doesn't make a great deal of
difference. If you use Photoshop or Photopaint, download the freebe. It's
about as good as it gets.

Douglas

Jim Waggener wrote:
"peter" wrote in message
news:wLy9e.36387$hB6.17244@trnddc06...

Are there any alternatives to neatimage that is just as good but
cheaper/free?
Or, does the latest photoshop have this feature (I plan to buy it some
day)?


Photoshop CS2 (shipping in May) has a new feature to reduce noise (or grain)
A current alternative to NeatImage is Noise Ninja.

Jim

PSE3 has some fairly effective noise reduction. Probably the same code
as in Photoshop CS2.


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Ron Hunter