Mike,
If that's not enough to
convince most people, nothing is...
what an improvement! I have been experimenting
a lot with it on different kinds of scenes and grain structures... it reacts
very differently if you take it off of "auto" and place the sample
squares manually in less dense "open" zones... it becomes much
more aggressive. Changing the size and number of the squares also affects
the outcome, but not as much as where you put them. My impression is that
these folks have come up with a fairly optimum "auto" mode for
using this... it flies pretty good on auto-pilot.
My other impression is
exactly what you said... there is less blotchiness to this and much more
selection... I used to avoid blotchiness in PW with a strong blur but not
much power. This would attack the integrity of the image to some extent.
This software attempts to kill the grain without affecting the rest of the
image... it's the best I have ever seen and I have to echo your sentiment...
worth the $160.
Tony