Photo Tips: Noise Reduction

Not being a great photographer, I’m keen on taking pictures and have some secrets. One of the main problems of digital photos is noise (visible red and green grain present in the image). Here is example:



There are some ways to remove noise. I’d like to tell about Neat Image software. It reduces most high ISO noise, film grain visible in scanned slides and negatives, JPEG artifacts in overcompressed images.

Open input image on the first tab, go to the tab “Device noise profile” and press the button “Auto profile”, go to the tab “Output image” and press the button “Apply”. That’s all. Now you can save your less noised image in fine JPEG quality even in trial version. Here is processed example image:



A useful side effect of Neat Image noise reduction is that noise-free images are better compressable. By reducing noise you can reduce the JPEG file sizes by 30-40% (even if the same compression level is used to save both noisy and noise-free images).

Try to guess what’s on the example photo and see the answer

Download Neat Image (2.1 Mb)