Noise Ninja 2.4.2 Photoshop Plugin (x32 X64) [Keygen] Serial Key
Oludare Padilla
I found a photoshop plug in called noise ninja (www.picturecode.com/download.htm). I am not to sure that I like it yet and need more time to play with it before I come to a conclusion.
However, here is my problem. When I run the program as a stand alone, it works fine. When I run the program as a plug in on gimp, the preview window is all messed up.
Has anyone experinced this problem? Has anyone experinced this problem with other photoshop plug ins on gimp?
Pauly
4:39AM, 21 August 2006 PDT(permalink)
Noise Ninja is a proprietary noise reduction application and Photoshop plugin which attempts to eliminate noise present in photos taken with a digital camera. It uses custom profiles for each camera to increase the effectiveness of the noise reduction algorithms used.[1]
I have used NN the photoshop plugin for a while with great results and on a recent visit to check for updates found it has been discontinued and replaced by Photo Ninja, a raw editing suite including a revamped NN 3. Pretty damned impressed with it. It is standalone so you have to save as tiff then open in photoshop but they will be adding plugin support soon.
Whilst the conventional use of Noise Ninja tends to be to have a series of profiles based on the ISO you're using (ie one for each), I personally find it more useful to use the profiles as a way of storing information about certain colour values (ie certain darks), and that then starts building up a series of profiles for you to use on other pictures. The way I work noise ninja is by grabbing a lot of the background areas only and building the profile based on those.
Noise Ninja works as a plugin on photoshop, so you can call it up as one of the last steps whilst doing post processing on your image. I personally prefer to go a little easier on the smoothing control as it can create overly plastic looking images if overused.
For the tested plugins, I have exported 16-bit TIFF files using Adobe Lightroom, leaving every develop setting turned off. As for the tested raw converters, I have only turned on the noise and sharpening modules in those, effectively exporting the same result as Lightroom should.
A plugin is something that works in or around your image editing workflow. You can apply a specific filter in a standalone program and come back to the image editor with your photo hopefully looking better than before. I've racked up the most popular noise reducers that work together with Photoshop.
Recently, Google announced that the Nik Collection is now free to download. There's absolutely no reason not to use and discover the power of both Color Efex Pro and Silver Efex Pro, but what about the collection's noise reduction plugin? I've left the measurement on auto and increased the reduction of Contrast Noise, while I toned down Color Noise for best results.
The very best results, however, are achieved by shooting many more images, editing those frames simultaneously in a raw converter of your choice without applying noise reduction, and stacking them, perfectly aligned. Any residual noise you can then reduce with the aid of whatever plugin or filter you already use, but with restraint. It's a lot of work, but it produces the highest quality image, one that's representative of that great night sky.
AfterShot Pro has a number of noise reduction options. It comes with NoiseNinja standard that can be upgraded to the full product quite cheaply. It has built in RAW noise reduction that is quite customisable. And there is a plugin based on wavelets.
There are also some free third party plugins for Noise Reduction available for AfterShot Pro. But, I'd try the built in standard NR features as a first step to see how well it works with your camera's noise pattern before determining if you really need the more advanced NR features or not.
This week's assignment is to try out a few of the noise reduction methods demonstrated in class on one (or more) of your high ISO images from the Week 5 or Week 6 assignments.The primary tools we'll be using is a noise reduction called Neat Image. Neat Image is a freeware program for non-commercial use that can be downloaded below. If you are running Mac OS and have Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, you can download a freeware plugin of Neat Image. Otherwise, you can try Noise Ninja, which runs on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, but won't let you save photos without a watermark. Noiseware is also a free program (less controls, but more automatic than Neat Image), but for Windows only.
- Neat Image (Windows): Download "Demo edition setup"
- Neat Image for Photoshop (Mac): Download "Demo plug-in /Mac Universal Binary" (this is a plugin for Photoshop only)
- Noise Ninja (Windows/Mac/Linux): Download the appropriate version for your operating system
- Noiseware (Windows): Download "Noiseware Community Edition Standalone 2.6"
- Open your picture. "Open Input Image" and find your file.
- Move to the next tab - Device Noise Profile
- Profile your image by clicking "Auto profile". Profiling the image takes a blank, detail-less area, and analyzes the noise characteristics of the image (this is how the program differentiates between pixel variations that are detail and not noise). For best results, you might want to manually select a blank patch that is somewhat dark (click and drag a box on the image) - try to avoid an area with actual detail or varying brightness/color (as this will confuse the profiler), bright areas (since these don't have much noise), or near-black areas (since the noise deviation is too low to detect).
- To verify your profile completed successfully, look at Profile Quality and match on the bottom-right of Neat Image. Profile Match should be at least 90% and Profile Quality should be at least 80% for best results.
- Move to the next tab - "Noise Filter Settings"
- Click "Preview" to open the preview box - zoom in to see the changes in detail
- Experiment with the different Filter Presets, or if you're feeling especially adventurous, try playing around with the actual settings.
- When you're happy with the preset used, go to "Output Image", Apply the filter, and then save your output image
Luminance noise (chrominance noise filtered)
Chrominance noise (luminance noise filtered)
Clean image (luminance & chrominance noise filtered)
The program is very easy to use. They have a standalone and a plugin for Photoshop, which is the one I chose. Previously, I had been using Noiseninja for a while until I recently discovered this. Now I honestly ONLY use Noiseware Professional.
As Adobe Photoshop grew into the digital editing power house that it is today, multiple other companies began to create plugins, mini programs that worked within the framework of photoshop that allowed the user to go beyond the capabilities that Adobe had made available. Here are some of my favorites:
With plugins on the other hand, with just the simple click of a button, you have the noise reduction layer ready, and all you have to deal with is applying reduction generally or through local adjustments/masks.
Besides offering the standard in noise reduction for low-light and high-ISO digital images, the Topaz DeNoise Photoshop plugin also offers exclusive features, including the ability to remove noise without resorting to not-so-subtle blurring techniques that often leave images with less detail. Other features include freshly-released dual-directional debanding technology to take care of low-lighting banding noise and their unique Correct Black Level parameter for restoring grainy shadow tones to their original sharpness of color.
If you already have an image that has too much noise, there are several ways to reduce the noise in post-production software such as Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. In addition, there are many third party utilities and Photoshop plugins that do a terrific job in decreasing noise in images without affecting the image quality.
I use PS6EE with the PerfectlyClear v3 plugin which offers two noise reduction presets, and the ability to tweak all the sliders associated.
Depending upon the image, I will mask the image and selectively reduce noise where it is less obvious or detrimental to the image.