{"id":3978,"date":"2016-08-29T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T02:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3d.coldstreams.com\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2016-08-29T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T02:54:07","slug":"noise-reduction-using-neat-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/2016\/08\/29\/noise-reduction-using-neat-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Noise Reduction using Neat Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took the following photo using a Nikon 1 V2, 1&#8243; sensor camera, at ISO 800. This is a big enlargement of a tiny section of a photo of a Titan II rocket launcher (from underneath). This was a very dark location, in the basement of the Evergreen Aviation Museum building.<\/p>\n<p>I processed this image using <a href=\"http:\/\/neatimage.com\">Neat Image 8<\/a>, the latest version of the Neat Image noise reduction software. You can see the remarkable improvement from the original, at left, to the noise reduced version, at right.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3979\" src=\"http:\/\/3d.coldstreams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Voila_Capture-2016-08-29_07-47-05_PM-640x362.jpg\" alt=\"Voila_Capture 2016-08-29_07-47-05_PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s noise reduction software enables even small sensor cameras to produce remarkable results in low light.<\/p>\n<p>Noise reduction is built in to Adobe Camera RAW, Photoshop, and Lightroom, RAW Therapee, Affinity Photo, and nearly all image editing software today.<\/p>\n<p>3rd party tools are available in the Google NIK Collection (Dfine2 tool), and the Noise Ninja &#8220;community edition&#8221; or commercial edition.<\/p>\n<p>Each noise reduction software applies its own methods for noise reduction. You may find that some programs work better on some types of photos than others. I have used Neat Image 7 for a long time and just began using Neat Image 8. For most photos, I just use Lightroom and a combination of &#8220;Masking&#8221; and Noise Reduction. 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This is a big enlargement of a tiny section of a photo of a Titan II rocket launcher (from underneath). This was a very dark location, in the basement of the Evergreen Aviation Museum building. I processed this image &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/2016\/08\/29\/noise-reduction-using-neat-image\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Noise Reduction using Neat Image<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,28],"tags":[66,67,218,320],"class_list":["post-3978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-still-photography","category-techniques","tag-adobe-photoshop","tag-adobe-photoshop-lightroom","tag-image-editing","tag-noise-reduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}