MartyT
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Reged: 09/28/07
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Loc: Kansas City
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Which one and why?
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LakeFX
member
Reged: 01/02/07
Posts: 63
Loc: Kalamazoo, MI
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I just got noise ninja (cs3 plugin) and I'm very surprised with its performance. never had neat image before. NN is very useful for astro images in the play time i've had with it (just a few days) it took minutes to learn how to use it too. I'm equally impressed with its performance with daylight photography as well. It will easily take a low light ISO 800 and turn it to a buttery smooth photo. Even some ISO 100 lightning pictures i have show vast improvements. Aurura pictures go from ok to WOW. I heart NN. 
Not sure if neat image does this, but it some photos, i can now adjust levels, then run NN...and i'm done. it does a great unsharp mask, fixes a lot of purple fringing (!!) kills color noise completely and reduces lumi-noise all at the same time and does it better than a lot of the built in tools in CS3.
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Celestron C80ED, Meade 8" SCT
Meade Lxd55
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Dean
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Reged: 12/31/04
Posts: 4912
Loc: Bailey Co Elev 8780 feet
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I use Kodak Digital GEM. I have used NeatImage and prefer GEM.
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"Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things" - George Carlin
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MartyT
professor emeritus
Reged: 09/28/07
Posts: 682
Loc: Kansas City
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Thanks for the replies - I'm sort of surprised that nobody else has chimed in, as I'd assume a lot more folks are using noise reduction tools...
I'll take a look at the Kodak tool when I get a chance.
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Celestron CGE / C-11 (CGE-1100)
Megrez 90 FD APO / 0.8x FR/FF vIII
QHY8, 350D, DSI Pro, SPC900NC
KWIQ Guider (QHY5)
ETX-125AT
12" Lightbridge
My Astrophoto Gallery
Astronomical Society of Kansas City
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Strgazr27
Vendor - Deep Space Mods and Composites
Reged: 10/04/04
Posts: 6984
Loc: StonyHill Observatory
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I currently use Noise Ninja with the 40D profile. I gave the Kodak tool a try last night and it is quite impressive and will likely become the tool I use. I also tried the DigitalSho tool and found that works very well also.
Thanks for the heads up Dean!
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StonyHill Observatory
Skywatcher EQ6 Pro (On it's way)
AT 130 F/6 Prototype
Royce 10" f/4 Astrograph (Under Construction)
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Tim in GA
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Reged: 02/06/06
Posts: 1443
Loc: Buford, GA
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I am using Imagenomic Noiseware mainly for high-ISO low light photos of non-astro stuff. Works great - I haven't tried any of the others mentioned.
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David Culp
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Reged: 04/10/07
Posts: 1177
Loc: Carrollton, TX
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I just downloaded and tried out Noise Ninja - amazing improvements in my images!!
I have a question - where in your tool chain would you apply Noise Ninja? Would you apply Noise Ninja in a batch process to all of your subs or right after stacking and aligning or later?
Or all of the above?
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Atoka, Ok
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Dean
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Reged: 12/31/04
Posts: 4912
Loc: Bailey Co Elev 8780 feet
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Definitely after stacking. Many people use noise reduction as the last step, but I've been doing it earlier either before or after stretching. I'll do it before more complex blends - for example I might use noise reduction seperately on my RGB and Lum, blend them for a new RGB and blend the Lum again but with a different level of noise reduction on the final lum layer.
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"Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things" - George Carlin
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KaibutsuX
super member
Reged: 08/23/07
Posts: 141
Loc: Sahuarita, Arizona
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I use NoiseNinja and love it. I used to do some photography of swimming and wrestling high school meets and in the low light conditions, I was forced to sometimes shoot at 3200. Noise Ninja has great advanced controls for brushing out noise and creating masks.
But for daylight photos, it's also extremely quick to just run everything through the filter for excellent results. For AP, sometimes the smoothing is too strong, but with tweaking the settings it works great.
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http://www.seangrider.com/astro
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skyler
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 08/16/06
Posts: 1672
Loc: TGPNW
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Is the NN plug-in option not really meant to run with CS2 ?
Since I have CS2, maybe it is more worthwhile to just get the 16-bit stand-alone software ?
Been using NN for a couple year but now getting tired of those criss-cross water marks on the free version.
Thanks for any thoughts on this.
S
Edited by skyler (01/10/08 05:31 PM)
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Andy Weeks
member
Reged: 12/12/07
Posts: 87
Loc: Batavia, IL
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I've been using Noise Ninja for a while and like it very much. I ended up getting the standalone 16 bit version. I use it on every photo as the last step.
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Andy in Batavia, IL (Mg 4.5 Skies)
10" SCT w/6.3 FR
Canon XTi (Unmodded for now) & Phillips SPC900 NC Webcam
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