WSD223
4th of March 2003 (Tue), 10:46
I had to take some pictures of a high school basketball game and a flash would have been distracting to the players. Ended up I had to shoot at 400 ISO because of the action movement, and I had to try to keep the shutter at least at 1/125. The pictures were noisy, little speckles everywhere.
So I gave Neat Image a try. I found it does a good job, you can even eliminate noise entirely, but at that point the picture looks like a drawn cartoon. Leaving a little noise makes a better looking picture.
On the downside, the process isn't very intuitive. I wasn't able to just start up the program and step through. I had to actually start up the help and read it. The process is slow. On my computer it takes 7 - 8 minutes to process one picture. One thing that helps in that regard is they have a batch process where you can get the parameters set up and let it process a series of pictures, so you can let it go overnight if you have a lot of pictures to do.
I liked it enough to pay for it, you can check it out for free if you want. Go to www.neatimage.com
So I gave Neat Image a try. I found it does a good job, you can even eliminate noise entirely, but at that point the picture looks like a drawn cartoon. Leaving a little noise makes a better looking picture.
On the downside, the process isn't very intuitive. I wasn't able to just start up the program and step through. I had to actually start up the help and read it. The process is slow. On my computer it takes 7 - 8 minutes to process one picture. One thing that helps in that regard is they have a batch process where you can get the parameters set up and let it process a series of pictures, so you can let it go overnight if you have a lot of pictures to do.
I liked it enough to pay for it, you can check it out for free if you want. Go to www.neatimage.com