Noise Reduction

I have a Canon D60 and shoot all of my pictures in RAW mode.

Pics are processed using Phase One Capture One LE or Adobe Photoshop Elements 3. Do I need a seperate standalone programme to reduce noise and grain?, something like Noise Ninja?

Noise ninja is one program that I like. I think fred miranda has some plugins or something that are pretty inexpensive and work relatively well.

I just bought Noise Ninja, it's a great program, it even helps with ISO 200 images.

I use Noise Ninja now but when I had a D60 I used to use Pekka's RAW Conversion PS action specifically written for the D60, it was excellent and had various levels of noise reduction. IM me and I will e-mail it to you if you want it.

N

I'm going to recommend Noiseware http://www.imagenomic.​com

I bought the pro version and it's very good. The free community version is fine for most people.

I think noiseware is very good and use it myself.
Rob

NeatImage is the other good one.

---Bob Gross---

I use Neat Image as a plug-in in Photoshop CS. It can do an amazing job if you set up the parameters carefully.

Noise Ninja and Neat Image are not the only noise reduction programs. See Noise Reduction Tool Comparison for a comparison of 22 different noise reduction tools.

You can download a free or trial version of most of those tools. Just try it out for yourself, use it and see for yourself if you think it's worth it to buy it.

Another plug for Noiseware. I've used it to tame some very wicked noise on my old Minolta 7Hi (ISO 400, no flash, indoor). It took several pictures from my youngest son's baptism from something that looked like a fuzzy black and white TV connected to a bent arial with a frayed cable into something that I was able to use in an 8x10. With PaintShopPro 9, too boot!

-- John

Amen to that.
I have the Neatimage plugin but I've just got Photoshop CS2 which has noise reduction as a new feature. It also does a reasonable job of reducing jpeg artifacts.

Neatimage is great though...there is a free standalone version that gives the paid version a run for its money.

I'm quite disappointed in the CS2 noise reduction, it's not much good at all IMHO. Noise Ninja or Noiseware are a lot more effective, and easier to use too.