I use the "Pro" version of NeatImage, and I always use it as a plug-in, nearly always with masking to constrain the effect to the desired areas of the image.
Both Noise Ninja and NeatImage provide very good results. The user interfaces are quite different, and so there tends to be strong user preferences.
Do you find that these programs work well at high ISOs (800-1600 or more)?
That is whne these noise reduction programs really shine. Also when you've cropped to a very small portion of the original image. The sharpness can still be there but the noise gets really bad. Neat Image has more than save a few images for me.
Could anybody tell me why, after putting my photos through neat image they come out gray-ish?
They dont all do this so I'm thinking that maybe its because it cant find a large enough uniform area in some photos (as it says) and this is a result of the quality issues that the little NI warning box warns about.
Any suggestions as to how to get around that?
Are there consequences in selecting a smaller area?
Never encountered your problem so far in NI. Try not to apply NI on a layer in a certain blending mode in PS (I hv encountered some issues a couple of times). On selecting a smaller area , not too much impact on noise reduction capability, but you have to be careful what area you select.
Could anybody tell me why, after putting my photos through neat image they come out gray-ish?
They dont all do this so I'm thinking that maybe its because it cant find a large enough uniform area in some photos (as it says) and this is a result of the quality issues that the little NI warning box warns about.
Any suggestions as to how to get around that?
Are there consequences in selecting a smaller area?
Thanks!
From what I've heard, applying too much noise reduction can result in a loss of contrast. Not sure I've seen that personally, but that's what I hear anyway.
Still undecided on if I want to purchase anything or if I just don't use it enough to matter.
Still undecided on if I want to purchase anything or if I just don't use it enough to matter.
If you generally don't have enough of a need to justify the purchase of NeatImage, PS has noise reduction built in. I think it's under the Filters menu (I'm not at a computer right now to verify).
