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I love my digital camera, as you may know, and I love to take pictures with it. However, as much as I love Cammie II, I have one gripe - digital noise in pictures. What is that? When you take a picture in low lighting, and you get a lot of extra dots of different colors: noise.
Noise is the worst for me when I'm taking action shots in low lighting. I try to clean it up in Photoshop by using 'Dust and Scratches' or by blurring the color channels, and other different ways. But it's time consuming, and the noise is still there.
But one day, Corin showed me the light, and is that light heavenly! He told me about a program called Neatimage which reduces the noise in pictures. Thie program is amazing! I take my digital pics, run them through Neatimage and PRESTO! Neatimage takes out the noise, or at the very least, makes the noise minimal. It even has multiple settings so I can decide how much noise I want to take out. And you can download presets off the internet for your camera type, so Neatimage knows exactly how much noise to take away.
The only downside is that there is some detail lost, but to me, it's pretty minimal. One run through the sharpness filter in Photoshop and it looks as good as new.
So if you're a digital photographer, and you wanna play around with Neatimage, there's a free demo that you can check out. I'm sure you'll like it!
So here's some examples.
Here's a picture of the backside of the man I'd like to call 'Big Shani' because damn, he looks TALL in this picture!
 Original Digital Pic | |
 Manually Modified |  With Neatimage |
And here's another example, using a picture of the lovely Maria Garcia:
 Original Digital Pic | |
 Manually Modified |  With Neatimage |
Don't they look awesome?
So why am I doing this? Well, I'm not getting paid by Neatimage, but I had spent so much frustrated time in front of my computer trying to fix up these pictures, I want to make it easier for other people. :)
Posted by Yano at January 12, 2004 11:45 AMWHOA!!
I may not have to throw my camera in the ocean afterall! If I had the time, I'd be downloading it already.
Now if you could just find a program that makes my pics less blurry. Blurry is not the same as noise, is it?
Posted by: Denise on January 12, 2004 12:24 PMthat's absolutely awesome!!! i'm going to have to try this out once i get home with some of my digital pics. great tip!
Posted by: kathy on January 12, 2004 12:52 PMi LOVE NeatImage. I have that program!
Posted by: bumblebootie on January 12, 2004 03:56 PMWoo hoo! Thanks Corin, and Yano for posting this. Noise is a big stumbling block when it comes to race photos.
I just might have to get NEAT with NeatImage. ;)
Posted by: April (lil ape) on January 12, 2004 11:03 PMWOW! that makes a serious difference! thanks for the tip!!
Posted by: chris on January 12, 2004 11:14 PMPretty cool. I'm going to take Photoshop for Photographers next semester. I can't wait to learn some hidden tricks.
Posted by: Mona on January 13, 2004 01:19 AMI love Corin forever for those Photoshop plugins. Have you tried FocalBlade?
Posted by: Noelle on January 13, 2004 10:03 AMI can attest to the awesomeness of NeatImage. I use NeatImage in my batch processing. I normally will have (on average) 200+ photos affixed with my camera's profile and have some dinner and come back.
There is another great program called Noise Ninja that does a great job as well. I normally use this in my landscape shots after getting better dynamic range out of bracketed shots.
Posted by: joey on January 13, 2004 10:49 AMShhh Noelle! Don't give away next week's tip! *wink*
Posted by: yano on January 13, 2004 02:33 PM