Noise reduction

[keanmu]

Was at a friends house last night and took a few shots of the kids, just for memory sake really since we are leaving soon. It was almost dark and had my ISO at 800 or 1000 so theb pics are noisy. I've had a play with them and they look ok but how can I reduce the noise further?

Thanks
Kam

[tenchy]

There are noise sliders in raw editor, then your option is really nr software like imageno mic

[Blofeld]

Topaz do a noise reduction plugin filter which is quite good.

[paulmag]

there is also a community version (FREE) from imagenomic it works just the same but with a few less features

http://www.imagenomic.com/download_nwsa.aspx

[Flyer]

Nik do one called "Dfine" Kam but like all their stuff it don't come cheap.

[tenchy]

there is also a community version (FREE) from imagenomic it works just the same but with a few less features

http://www.imagenomic.com/download_nwsa.aspx

Ah good call. I always forget about that

[tenchy]

Nik do one called "Dfine" Kam but like all their stuff it don't come cheap.

Takes a bit of getting used to too

[keanmu]

Thanks all.

I just used the raw noise reduction and they look ok. Like I said, just memory snaps really....

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Kam

[tenchy]

Looks good mobile Kerry

[Tenorplayer]

I use the imagenomic community that Paul mentioned

[Jtopping]

Hi keanmu,
It looks good to me, you did the right thing by over-exposing it a bit which saves the shadows.
RAW noise reduction is really good. If that doesnt work you could use NIC-software-denoise or do it manually in Photoshop by selecting the Blue Channel (which usually contains shadows) and go to Filter-Noise-Reduce Noise... I hope this helps. :-)

Joe