Help with noise reduction

[RbnDave]

I didn't have my tripod along so I had to turn up the ISO for this shot. It's taken with ISO 1600. I did a quick edit to make this presentable, but if you look too close you'll find some editting mistakes and a lot of noise.

Is there a way in Photoshop Elements to reduce the noise? I used the noise reducing filter and it had little or no effect.

http://www.pbase.com/image/22473115/large.jpg


One of you has to have a trick or technique.

Thanks

Dave

[ilya]

The easiest thing to do is download Neatimage. They have a free fully functioning demo that works great. I cannot achieve nearly as good results in PS.

[slejhamer]

It looks good for ISO 1600 - very usable. The color temp seems odd to me, but that's a different issue. ;)

NeatImage will have a hard time with that shot as there is not much of a solid area from which it can sample. It's a great program otherwise.

Try the free "digital deluxe toolbox" actions available here: http://www.2morrow.dk/75ppi/coolpix/actions/

It's not bad, not great, but I've found that it will help reduce high ISO noise without much loss in detail if you run it with the optional ISO Grain action.

[Conk]

Mitch is right about Neatimage and also the issue on the colour.
Even though there isn't many large solid area's to sample from for neatimage I gave it a go anyway. I used the area bottom left on the floor and then used the auto tune button. It reduced the noise very well but like Mitch was saying there is a huge reduction in detail.
What I tried then is a little trick to bring out detail and not over contrast the photo.
-layer>duplicate layer>ok
-with the duplicate layer highlighted in the layers pallet select filter>other>high pass 2.0.>ok
You might find that a setting of 2.0 a touch too much. Adjust to desired level. 1.5 may be enough.
-With the copy layer still highlighted select>overlay.
To see the difference click and remove the eye in the layers pallet.
As you'll see when you apply the high pass filter the edges beneath the grey will "pop" out.

[atotos]

Thanks for pointing out NeatImage. It has helped me to remove quite a bit of noise from my eclipse pictures. None has the quality of some of those posted here, just on a very cloudy night and no telescope, but at least now they look a bit better ;)