![]() ![]() Imagenomic’s Noiseware Professional is available for Mac OS and Windows as a plug-in or stand-alone product. Both use heuristic programming that continuously perfects processing so every time you process an image, Noiseware learns more about your camera or scanner. Noiseware is available for Mac OS and Windows as a plug-in or stand-alone product in both Standard ($49.95) and Professional ($69.95) versions with the biggest difference being 16-bit capability in the Pro version. The plug-in allows the detected noise levels to be adjusted by tonal and color range while it preserves image detail based on tonality range, all the while processing to guard against excessive changes. Noiseware’s self-learning mechanism automatically calibrates a noise profile and chooses the optimal noise removal settings without requiring camera-specific profiles. ![]() The interface is intuitive and you’ll get excellent results without having to read the Help file. Really my whole idea for the comparison was to show that we can now expect results as good, if not better than, dedicated noise processing software within Lightroom 3 with a faster, easier and non-destructive work flow.Imagenomic’s ( Noiseware removes high and low ISO noise and JPEG compression artifacts from digital files as well as grain from scanned film. On a properly exposed image at ISO 2000 the noise is less noticeable and even on a very underexposed image at ISO 200, the noise was easily wiped out by all of the above with minimal loss of color or sharp details. And clearly this is somewhat a ‘worse case’ type image. I am going to sit down and re-correct the LR2, LR3b2 and Noiseware Pro images now that I have spent additional time working in Neat Image to “perfect” that image.Īll of the processes did exhibit a their own advantages and disadvantages. I do also see slight loss of color detail in some places within Lightroom 3 compared to Neat Image but that may also be due to my heavy handed processing the first go around. It did leave some artifacts behind that Lightroom 3 was able to eliminate. Yea, the test of Neat Image using the uncorrected file was much better once I started with the correct baseline image to allow the software to do it’s magic. And here are those results with and without noise reduction enabled. (I also exported it without LR2 noise reduction to try and allow the noise reduction software to do its best but still had only “ok” results.) Then I sent the NEF (Nikon camera raw) file to Lightroom 3 Beta 2 to try the new noise reduction controls out. The noise reduction in Lightroom 2 was still not very good so I exported the file to Photoshop where I attempted to further correct it with Neat Image and Noiseware Pro, both with only “ok” results. I first attempted to process the file in Lightroom 2 (LR 2.6) and adjusted the file the best I could using the included noise reduction controls. So with a combine correction of over 2 stops, the file could be as bad as one shot about ISO 8000 in areas. In this case, I started with a shot taken with a Nikon D300 at ISO2000 but the image was also underexposed by 1.3 f-stop (corrected in Lightroom) and I also brushed another 1 f-stop of adjustment brush just on her face to brighten it up further. And another set of controls for the new film grain effect sliders and post crop vignettes.īut since this post is about the new Lightroom 3 noise reduction, I felt it was necessary to toss a worst case scenario file in and see what I could get out of it. They have also moved the lens correction sliders to their own control panel for lens vignette and chromatic aberration correction. ![]() And the Color slider is also paired with a Detail slider with the same type of control as above except for chroma noise. The combination of these can help bring back or enhance details that may otherwise be filtered as luminance noise and smoothed. The Luminance slider is now paired up with a Detail and Contrast slider. The new controls feature several new sliders for noise reduction. So the big improvement in the Beta 2 version of Lightroom 3 is the addition of the new noise reduction controls which have been slightly changed and improved over Lightroom 2. ![]()
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