Noise Reduction Software

trican

Hi all,

I was wondering whats the best software for removing/reducing noise, particularly in photos taken with a high ISO. I'd welcome any input!

Many thanks

PopeBuckfastXVI

Noise Ninja

http://www.picturecode.com/

Borderfox

Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5 have superb noise reduction built in

trican

Is Noise ninja as good as it gets though? If others are using other programs I'd very interested in hearing

trican

thanks borderfox - In your opinion is Lightroom 3 noise reduction comparable with Noise ninja etc?

Borderfox

Very much so, I also use Topaz Adjust/De Noise - very good at decreasing noise and keeping detail. Lightroom and CS5 are superb though

trican

I was checking out Topaz DeNoise earlier today, I thought it was scrubbing off an excessive amount of detail (and I was playing with strengths fairly extensively)

Thecageyone

I find LR3's luminance NR the best, though I have never used noise Ninja.

Borderfox

I use it within Topaz Adjust and set it to 1.00 and 0.75

RandomAccess

Lightroom 3 has a 30 day trial, quite happy with its noise reduction. Probably best for you to play with a few on a sample image and see which results you like best?

daycent

Nik software's Dfine is also good, worth a try.

the_monkey

Borderfox wrote: »

Very much so, I also use Topaz Adjust/De Noise - very good at decreasing noise and keeping detail. Lightroom and CS5 are superb though

+1 for Lightroom 3 , excellent Noise reduction.

much improved on the previous versions.

I didn't care much for noise ninja tbh, maybe I was using it wrong, but doesn't matter now with LR3...

irish147

PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

Noise Ninja

http://www.picturecode.com/

this is great software :)

Adrian.Sadlier

I use noiseware professional and I think its great

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trican

Thanks for all the input. I've looked and am continueing to examine the various options. Lightroom 3 does actually do a pretty good job, and in direct comparison with Noise Ninja (granted it was only one image), I think Lightroom out performs it. I was also seeing some really unpleasant artifacts in Noise Ninja when I really pushed the strength of the noise reduction. I also looked at Noiseware, quite impressed with its performance too. Though I do think the above images are slightly misleading, there is generally a drop in contrast in at least one region of the image, whereas the above processed image definitely has contrast and/or saturation increased.