Re: [APML] Back to a film image-Rho Ophiuchus

[John Laborde <jlaborde@ix.netcom.com>]

Richard,

Yes. I have used SGBNR also but I think  Noise Ninja is better. One 
thing I really like about it is that after you apply the noise reduction 
to the whole image you can use a brush to remove some or all of the 
affects in selected areas.

John

Richard Crisp wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Laborde" 
> <jlaborde@ix.netcom.com>
> To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 3:04 AM
> Subject: [APML] Back to a film image-Rho Ophiuchus
>
>
>> Here is an image or rather two images in a two frame mosaic of Rho 
>> Ophiuchus area I took last year. I didn't take it very far in the 
>> processing except to scan the film. The scanned images were quit 
>> noisy and the film had a ton of dust bunnies and hairs from poor 
>> handling at the film lab. I was just going to scrap these shots Since 
>> then I have learned a lot about noise control and image processing in 
>> general so I decided just a few days ago to complete the processing 
>> started a year ago.
>>
>> The image is a mosaic of 2 120- E200 pushed 1 stop, scanned at 4000 
>> dpi on a PrintScan 120. All processing was done in Photoshop CS and 
>> passed through the demo version of  Noise Ninja for noise reduction.
>>
>> Just a side note, I think Noise Ninja works much better that Neat 
>> Image which I have been using for about a year.
>
>
> have you tried SGBNR, John?
>
>
>>
>> Here's the image. 
>> http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=728&UserID=67
>
>
> that came out nice!
>
> rdc
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