Noise

[GREAPER]

Is there a free noise reduction plugin or program available anywhere that works. I dont want to buy one as I dont know that I would have much use for it, but I am trying to fix up an image for a friend, it was underexposed and bringing it up introduced a fair amount of noise. If I cant clean it up he'll have to take it as is, but I am not willing to pay 40 bucks for software to take care of it. Any ideas? Links?

[JohnR]

first question is...mac or windows? then...do you have photoshop?

[GREAPER]

Windows XP, Adobe Photoshop 7.0

[JohnR]

There is NeatImage. I haven't ever used it, but they do have a demo available:
http://www.neatimage.com/download.html

Licence:

The Demo edition of Neat Image is distributed as freeware for non-commercial use. See the documentation supplied with the software for more details.

[GREAPER]

Thanks for the link. I downloaded it and it did a great job of cleanin up the noise.

It was pretty bad and I dont think the resulting image is as good as he is hoping but I saved the original, and two different noise reduced copies. He can try to improve them if he wants.

[JohnR]

Welcome. glad I could help :)

[Nikolai]

Windows XP, Adobe Photoshop 7.0As to the other alternatives - check www.dpreview.com (http://www.dpreview.com), I remember a lot of entries over there in forums (at least at stf, but it really does not matter which camera you use/love/hate:-)

[GerryDavid]

Is there a free noise reduction plugin or program available anywhere that works. I dont want to buy one as I dont know that I would have much use for it, but I am trying to fix up an image for a friend, it was underexposed and bringing it up introduced a fair amount of noise. If I cant clean it up he'll have to take it as is, but I am not willing to pay 40 bucks for software to take care of it. Any ideas? Links?
Theres a free program called helion or something like that. Its installed on the other pc so I cant go look it up right now.