Re: [APML] SGBNR vs Grain Surgery

[Jason Ware <jasonw@galaxyphoto.com>]

I'll second the vote for Neat Image. It works pretty well
on astrophotos, however, its is absolutely outstanding for
images taken with a digital camera. I recently took a photo
of my kid's hockey team then enlarged the crap out of it for
a banner after applying Neat Image noise reduction. The
results were outstanding.

Jerry Lodriguss wrote:
> 
> At 12:34 PM 2/17/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Dear Group,
> >
> >For the past month or so I have been using SGBNR:
> >
> >(http://www.pleiades-astrophoto.com/home/home.en.html)
> 
> >Can anyone out there compare the functionality, results, ease of use,
> >etc., of SGBNR to Grain Surgery?  Grain Surgery seems pretty pricey
> >for what it does but maybe I need to know more...
> 
> I think it's pretty close.  Another one to look at is Neat Image.  Neat
> Image is just out of beta and it's only $30.   You select an area of the
> background and it analyzes the noise. It has a lot of specific controls
> after that.
> 
> The problem with SGBNR is that it has three parameters to adjust and it's
> mostly trial and error.
> 
> I'd never buy Grain Surgery at the price they want now, not with SGRNR for
> free and Neat Image for just a couple of bucks.
> 
> Jerry
> Astrophotography, Tips and Techniques
> for Digital Enhancement in Photoshop:
> http://www.astropix.com
> 
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