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I have heard this is a really good plugin for Photoshop, does anybody use this and is it worth the money?

Staffsmartin said:

I have heard this is a really good plugin for Photoshop, does anybody use this and is it worth the money?

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I have both Neat Image and Noise Ninja. Out of the two I personally prefer Noise Ninja. What I really like about it is the built in noise brush that lets you easily mask out part of the image via the erase mask - if you over shoot the target area you can simply undo with the paint mask. On a lot of my images I run an aggressive noise reduction on the background only by masking the bird and perch - not because the image is particulary noisy but this gives a nice blurred look to the BG.
Of course you can do a similar thing with neat image or any other NR software by using a layer mask.

Whether it is worth the money is a highly individual thing, to some people it would be to others it would not - to me it most certainly is.
Highly recommend by me :t:

I agree with Roy - its an excellent plugin, and i use this almost exclusively with CS4

I use the similar plugin from imagenomic called noiceware, and
1 it has been worth the money for me, and
2 I have been very happy with the service from the company

Niels

In a word yes.

Steve.

I've used Ninja before, and like most of the noise reduction programs it's pretty solid. I've also used Helicon filter, and Noiseware, more often recently as I preferred those two for different reasons. Lately, the past few months I have been finding really amazing results from very high ISO stuff using Topaz' Denoise software. I started with Denoise3, which was decent, but Denoise4 was a big leap and truly amazing for higher ISO removals. Now Denoise5 just came out, and looks quite promising so far as even better than version 4. Once you get a version, future upgrade versions are free.

Any of them are pretty solid though...and for basic noise removal, there's not a lot between them.

Topaz Denoise 5 is better than Neat Image or Noise Ninja: I'm a recent convert to Denoise, having used and recommended Neat Image for years and Noise Ninja (as a plug-in to Bibble) for almost as long.

It's trivially easy to shoot at 3200 ISO (and higher) with a 7D, converted well and then NRd with Denoise:



(This is not nearly as well-lit as it might look - I had to "add light" in PP to get it like this, which adds noise, but it still looks excellent).

Noiseware is OK (been using that for a years as well, from when its author first posted about it on here) but it's not really in the same game.