Open CR2 in Photoshop CS4 32-bit on Windows Vista 32-bit.

I then used that single PSD to work on all the photos. When one of the product engineers raised a concern about JPEG compression I decided that it made more sense to import the RAW into Photoshop via Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) 5.2. Initially I was processed the original images in Canon’s Digital Photo Professional (DPP) 3.5. This product is one of three excellent after-market products that I am reviewing as part of my Noise Reduction Roundup article. This is a run and click OK solution that I just store on a merged (CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+E in Photoshop) layer so I can undo if I change my mind later. For those wanting more control, there’s a wealth of options and ways to set measure points.

This is very much like presets in Adobe Lightroom, and a brilliant way to make the complex simple. These settings are like presets of the sliders below, so Night Scene as shown in the image above is simply raising the Noise Reduction values. It’s smoking fast and the Settings up at the top left corner of the screen were sufficient enough for my needs. While the user-interface of this product is fairly intimidating, the good news is that it is so damn smart that you really don’t need to use it! Here’s what it looks like on Window Vista system, but it is available on Mac OS as well: It seems to have the best algorithm for knowing what to sharpen and what to leave alone and how to avoid destroying the sharpness of your image in the process of trying to make that noise go away. This product has the best automatic mode of any product I have ever used.

After spending a month with this product, I understand why.

Well when Scott says something is good, I listen and he recommends Imagenomic Noiseware Professional in his Lightroom 2 for Digital Photographers and The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers. This article refers to version 4.1.1, but as of with version 5.0, I still consider it the best noise reduction software product on the market.Įver heard of Scott Kelby (founder of NAPP)? Well, if you’ve been reading this blog you sure have because he’s the biggest and best Digital Photography, Photoshop & Lightroom book author on the planet. See the bottom of this article for a 15% discount offer on this product.

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