I don't have CS2 so I don't know what it does but, if anything, I'd say
the association is the other way around. If you're going to sharpen
something that has noise in it you want to reduce the noise first since
sharpening will accentuate the noise. Picture Window Pro, for example,
has an "advanced sharpening" function which begins the process with
optional noise reduction.
The type of noise reduction shown in the Canon link below is done at the
individual pixel level during capture. Each pixel is handled
independenly of any other pixel. That's very much different than global
post-process image pattern analysis by the likes of Noise Ninja or Neat
Image.
Chuck Norcutt
Bill Pearce wrote:
>
>>I don't know what Winsor might have posted but I may have posted this
>>bit of Canon technology with respect to fixed pattern noise reduction
>><http://photoworkshop.com/canon/CMOS/technology-e/noise_reduction.html>
>>But I've never seen anything about sharpening that I can recall.
>
> Well, I never said my memory hasn't suffered from too much recreation...
>
> Don't most noise reduction programs have a sharpening function? the only one
> I'm familiar with is the one in CS2, and there are sharpening adjustments
> available. Since I don't use it all that much, I'm only loosely familiar
> with it.
>
> Bill Pearce
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