Noise reduction software

[mrrod]

What's the best noise reduction program to use? I've tried Zero Noise but unfortunately it hangs halfway through the process, I just downloaded a 15 day trial of Noiseware Pro and that eliminates noise rather well but I find it also diminishes the detail on my pictures. I wouldn't mind using zero noise after seeing the results posted on another thread, if there's better then let me know.

[Colin Southern]

Hi Rod,

Why don't you send a PM to _GUI_ - he wrote Zero Noise, and so can hopefully sort out the hanging issue for you.

Personally, I just try to expose my images correctly in the first place (using GND filters if necessary) for me, noise just doesn't seem to ba an issue.

[Dave Humphries]

What's the best noise reduction program to use?

Neat Image works fine for me.

See also my post;
Neat Image, a simple workflow

In particular, please read post 8 in the above thread, as it explains how Neat Image works.

Cheers,

[AlanP]

I have been using Topaz Denoise and I am quite happy with it.

[proseak]

"What's the best noise reduction program to use?" - What sort of noise is it, and how do you process your images?

Sometimes it's easy to do this without 3rd party software, although I do use Neat Image on occasion.

Cheers

Peter

[arith]

I use Topaz DeNoise 3 but they have others. I can't be bothered with all the messing around involved with the others. Noise reduction is the first thing I do after converting from RAW and usually minimise noise reduction to virtually nil but concentrate on chroma noise.
If I have a lot to do I work on the worst image and then apply the same settings to all of them.