Maris - thanks very much for the link. This software is a well kept secret (I hadn't stumbled over it despite frequent searches on this topic), but it looks very promising indeed.
Even after a little experimentation it gives much better results than any other method I've tried, and it is less prone to adding artefacts than Grain Surgery. If anyone else is looking for a noise/grain/grain-aliasing solution, I would suggest you take a (long) look. As Maris pointed out, the catches seem to be: - doesn't work on TIF's yet, so files have to be converted to/from BMP/JPG - default settings are too high for my liking, and you DO need to read up on how to get the best from it - *very* slow ..then again, perhaps my 366MHz Celeron does need that upgrade ;-) - struggles with 'gross' grain-aliasing (- still better than anything else I've tried) - still in beta form, but seems stable enough.. - doesn't work on a Mac (obvious cruel comment deleted!) I particularly like its method of creating profiles for image types, eg I can set up a filter to suit the grain-aliasing on Superia 400 on my 2700dpi scanner, or one for a digicam's dark noise, and save them individually. And you can't complain about the current price.. :-) mark t Maris wrote: >"Neat Image is a digital filter designed to reduce visible noise in >digital photographic images." > >http://absoft.nm.ru/ > >It presently supports only JPG and BMP files so you will have to convert >from TIFF to BMP first, but I wrote them and they responded that they are >working on TIFF support (though who knows when?). > >Do follow their suggestion - print out the Help files (only about 10 >pages) for optimal results. > >It is still at the beta stage and is therefore free for now. > >Maris ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe' in the title or body