Post Processing - Process?!

ok, i have an image that was shot at ISO1600 and needs a bit of Noise Ninja work.

question is, at which point do i run the images through Noise Ninja? before of after LR / PS?

If you shot in Raw, it makes sense to do all you can in your Raw processor before converting to do something in an external editor -- at least that's how I approach things.

NN has to be after the RAW converter because it has to have an RGB image to work on. My usual practice, however - using Neat image, not NN, but I think they are similar, is to not do the usual capture sharpening in LR, leaving it to be done in NI because there I can balance the sharpening against the noise reduction. Of course, after the n.r. you can work further on the tif in either LR or PS.

I agree with Elie, but I use NIK's DFine for noise reduction.

I use Noiseware, and when I do, it's after sharpening (I always sharpen for print, so no problem there). That way I can determine the amount of noise left very accurately.

Noiseware seems to deal very well with a sharpened image.