December 09, 2004
Neat Image
I played around with the rather noisy image of this morning's sunrise using a piece of software called Neat Image. My brother tipped me off to the software, which does an amazing job at reducing the amound of noise that most digital cameras with small sensors (which is most digital cameras) produce.
The resulting image is a bit "blurry" but you can tweak the engine quite a bit. I modified the "noise profile" and created this image which is sharper than the original result, but still has the noise significantly reduced if not eliminated.
However, I got the best results by taking the filtered image and superimpositing the original image on top of it but setting the original image layer style to "Color" (in Photoshop). The results bring back all of the detail I could want in the clouds, while still reducing the noise.
I'm pretty amazed by this filtering. It even comes with an Adobe Photoshop plugin. This is definitely a very important addition to my digital photography. Lots to experiment with. Go check it out.
Posted by Nick Codignotto at December 9, 2004 11:37 PM | TrackBackPosted to Photo and Video
