Noiseware: who uses it?

It's a plug-in for photoshop found here.

I've been playing with it on somebody else's machine. Wow. It even makes pics taken from a 50D shot at 3200 ISO look half way presentable.

I have Noise Ninja and this thing puts it to shame IMO. It also runs circles around the noise reduction features in LightRoom.

I'm actually thinking that shooting at 1600+ ISO is even possible - something I think the 50D is a dog at doing.

I have noiseware, but I don't use it too often. It doesn't really get rid of banding unfortunately, which is the type of noise that I tend to find most offensive.

It is definitely much better than the NR in LR2 (which just kills detail), I think they're supposed to be improving the NR in LR3 though.

Anyway, you should check out NIK dfine as well, I played with it for awhile and it's also very good.

Now I'm curious to try these out.

Thanks!

I hope I'm still alive by the time it comes out of beta.

I will. Thanks!

I rarely use noise reduction as it also reduces detail. I think I used it on my 7D ISO 20,000 shot, but I masked it to only reduce noise in the dark areas.

Noiseware is great, but I use it like Tim.

Never used any sort of noise reduction before. I enjoy grain lots of times.

I'd have though Bobby would ADD noise/grain, rather than take it away.

I do add grain. Less than I used to though! I'm starting to even out a bit now

I use it; it is good. I have Nik Dfine and Noiseware, i use Dfine first and if I don't care for the result I run it through noiseware.

Noiseware is great.

I use Noiseware and it does an excellent job. That said, after playing around with LR3 beta and its enhanced noise handling, I can imagine NW sitting idle.

I would say that noise reduction software can be like photoshot actions. When used full throttle, it just looks terrible. When I notice that noise software has been used, it always looks terrible. Definitely don't try to make an ISO6400 shot noise free and you'll probably be fine

Bobby

That's one of the reasons I like Nik Dfine. It applies the noise reduction as a seperate layer, so you can fade it, blend it, sandwich it... Etc. Definitely not full throttle though. No amount of sharpening can make it look natural at full throttle.

I have the PS plug-in and I like it. Like mentioned by others here, it's best to "Tweak" it yourself and not rely on the default settings or else the NR is usually to strong.