Playing with Neat Image to clean up ISO noise

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Les Jones

I found Neat Image via Thom Hogan and downloaded their free demo. Here’s a picture I shot at ISO 1600 with lots of noise:

Here’s the same photo processed with NeatImage using the default settings:

Waddya think?

P.S. A while back I was amazed that printouts from Walgreen’s looked so much better than the same pictures onscreen. Alcibiades guessed that Walgreen’s software enhanced the photos. After seeing this I’m sure he’s right.

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2 Responses to Playing with Neat Image to clean up ISO noise

  1. Kathy T. says:
    September 4, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    That is just incredible. I think my jaw actually dropped. Am going to Neat Image now!
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