I'm not sure if that's a good, bad or indifferent thing, but I've done several more applications and doing the noise reduction first seems to work well. One thing I discovered by treating the noise after making other adjustments in Gimp is that, instead of applying a Device Noise Profile for the camera (D90), it applys it for Gimp.
So, if I'm going to treat noise - I apply noise treatment to the TIFF before sending it to GIMP. Noise Ninja says you shouldn't make any adjustments before you treat noise. I shoot RAW and the only thing I usually adjust in the raw processor is exposure. If you do as last step it is possible that some other step (as example ,again sharpening) will enhance the noise, forcing you to increase the smoothing with the risk to smooth a bit also what is not noiseĭepends on your file and overall workflow. If you do first the risk is to blur details that you may wish to enhance or reveil more (as example by sharpening ) well - quite NEAT.Īfter looking at the originals my thoughts would be: My question is: should I be using the Neat Image noise reduction as a first step (i.e, before Gimp as in this case) or as a final step after Gimp? Or, does it matter? The difference is, of course, more dramatic viewing the originals than the Flickr downloads.
127neatgimp I first used the Neat Image noise reduction and then did the Gimp processing. 127a (below) is my original shot after processing with Gimp.
#Neat image photoshop plugin iso
All I can say is WOW! I used a photo taken with a D90 of a hockey game ISO through glass. I just downloaded the Neat image noise reduction tool demo version.