Neat Image - Remove Noise From Digital Images

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Neat Image - Remove Noise From Digital Images

by Jason Clarke (RSS feed) Oct 27th 2005 at 6:25PM

This program is neat. Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Seriously, Neat Image is a really cool digital image filter that can clean up images that suffer from noise. Digital noise is most noticeable in photos where too little light was used, but it occurs in almost all digital photos to greater or lesser degrees. Neat Image understands what causes this noise, and has the unique ability of being able to reduce the noise, sometimes completely. Check out the before and after photos for an example of what I’m talking about. There is a fully functional free demo version with a few limitations (does that mean it’s not “fully functional”? You know what I mean) - the most important of which is that it will limit the JPEG quality of any image it saves to 91 out of 100, which in reality is still very good. Chances are the improvements you’ll see due to cleaned up noise will outweigh the loss of quality. There are 4 other versions available, including a Photoshop plug-in version. And it has Windows and Mac versions, and will even run in Wine for you Linux folks!

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

diego said 9:04PM on 10-27-2005

i use noiseware community edition it doesn't limit the "quality" of the resulting image and it's free too

MHC said 11:27PM on 10-27-2005

I always considered Picture Code's Noise Ninja and Imagenomic's Noiseware to be pretty close in terms of great noise reduction software in digital photography. Just to hear that there is a free version for Windows and not Mac OS X makes me see that I will be buying Noise Ninja. I vote with my wallet.

Zelidar said 3:50AM on 10-28-2005

Did anyone compare Neat Image with PaintShopPro? As last move before beeing swallowed by Corel the've added a "One Step Noise Removal" filter in version 9. Having this function already integrated into a photo editing application obviously makes sense.

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