Any tips for using Neat Image?

[DeeplyDigital]

I am new to Neat Image, as it was released for Mac just a few days ago.

So - I got the full version yesterday, the same day I went out shooting until
5am at a celeb party/ session and therefore haven't really had a chance
to learn about NI.

I am overwhelmed with what it does to small (bw) jpegs. Large files converted
from RAW seem to require a different approach.

Any tips? Also tips regarding the workflow when converting to B&W?
Use Neat Image last, first?

Please help,
tired photographer
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[Jesper]

The Neat Image website has a support forum (http://www.neatimage.net/forum/index.php) which has a lot of info on using Neat Image.

Also, have a look at the help information included with the program itself and other documents on the Neat Image support page (http://www.neatimage.com/support.html). There are examples, tutorials, etc...

[BrandonSi]

I am new to Neat Image, as it was released for Mac just a few days ago.

So - I got the full version yesterday, the same day I went out shooting until
5am at a celeb party/ session and therefore haven't really had a chance
to learn about NI.

I am overwhelmed with what it does to small (bw) jpegs. Large files converted
from RAW seem to require a different approach.

Any tips? Also tips regarding the workflow when converting to B&W?
Use Neat Image last, first?

Please help,
tired photographer
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Not sure if it's the right way, buy MY way is to use C1 Pro to load up raw, make wb/contrast, etc.. changes, then export as TIFF. Open Tiff up in neat image and go to town on the noise trying to get noise profiles within the same shades of color. For example for a noisy blue sky with white clouds, i'd profile out the blue, then if the clouds looked noisy, i'd profile the white in the clouds, then I'd do a few profiles of the blue sky changing into portions of the white clouds. Then take a look at it in the preview section, if it looks good export it to TIFF as xxxx_filtered.tiff. Then from there I open in photoshop for level/curve/saturation work, and for B/W, I would play around with desaturating it in PS. So basically, B/W would be my last step.

[DeeplyDigital]

Thanks a million. I will give this a go right now.
Takes a bit of practise to do it really well, I guess.

Julia
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[Werd5150]

personally..i didnt see this being that much trouble..

@brandonSI- what i seem to be reading, is that you used multiple profiles on the same image.

I simply load the image..use the profile square to select the largest area of the same shade with noise..then profile that and it works great once you tweak the settings..i used half noise reduction on the recent photos I did, and then just did hairtrigger changes to those presets.

its easy.

[BigBlueDodge]

Hey Werd,

call it me, but I'm thinking that these members probably aren't even around since this thread is 5 years old !!