[OM] Re: Noise reduction

[James King]

I use neat image and like it.
There is both a photoshop plug in available and a stand along program 
with batch facility - if you buy the professional version. It works well 
for me (slide film). I apply a little grain removal and sometimes use 
the sharpenning too.
The only slight problem with it is that if you decide to use it on raw 
files which are gamma 1.0 e.g. raw from vuescan then even with a profile 
it tends to over clean dark areas resulting in featureless dark rocks 
etc. If you convert to gamma 2.0 first it works far better.
The docs are fairly well written and its easy to use one calibrated. I 
have thrown it at 64bit RGBI medium format scans of over 500MB and its 
handled them without dying (true I have 3GBytes of ram and 8GB of 
swapspace). Its been fairly robust. I had one or two crashes from the 
photshop plug in but the original files was not damaged and I think 
photoshop even managed to continue.
Regards
James

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