Noise Reducers
If you’ve taken a photo in low light or set your camera to a high ISO (light sensitivity), chances are the image has a ton of noise—grainy-looking speckles—in it. While you’ll find a couple of noise-reducing tricks in Chapter 11, if the image is really important, you can spring for one of these noise-reducing plug-ins instead.
Noiseware
This plug-in is the noise reducer of choice for professional photographers. Instead of blurring the whole image to make the noise less visible, Noiseware analyzes the image and reduces noise only in the areas that really need it. You also get a handy before-and-after view so you can see what it did. It’s available from www.imagenomic.com and costs around $80.
Tip
You can often get plug-ins much cheaper if you buy ’em bundled together, or if you’re upgrading from a previous edition. Be sure to look for special deals on the developer’s website!
Dfine
This plug-in reduces noise in a simple and nondestructive way. When you launch Dfine and click its Measure button, it scours your image for noise in areas without much detail (where noise is easiest to see). Start by trying the factory setting and then increase or decrease the noise-reduction level with the easy-to-use sliders (see Figure 19-2). When you find a setting you like, click OK and Dfine copies the currently active layer and applies noise reduction to the duplicate.
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