Getting rid of grain?

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I posted an image of the sun earlier today http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=79169 and it has got me wondering how I can remove the graininess in the photograph.

Can anyone recommend a program (free preferably) that can do this or is it a process within the likes of Photoshop etc?

Thanks in advance

Neil
 
You can get Noise Ninja as a plugin for photoshop and it does a very good job.

Nigel
 
andrewc said:
neat image
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Thanks very much for that, I downloaded it and had a very quick play and got these results

Before
sunrise.jpg


and After
sunrise_filtered.jpg


Probably even more improvement with a bit of practice with the settings.

Brilliant - thanks again.

Neil
 
Hmm,,, getting rid of grain?


I think a tractor and trailer would be best! :D
 
Beware though,

any noise reduction you use will reduce the amount of fine detail in the image to a degree.

I find it's always best to just apply it areas were there isn't any fine detail and it shows the most. e.g. shadows, skies etc
 
Gandhi said:
Beware though,

any noise reduction you use will reduce the amount of fine detail in the image to a degree.

I find it's always best to just apply it areas were there isn't any fine detail and it shows the most. e.g. shadows, skies etc
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Thank you, I'll be careful with that (y)

Neil
 
Its not grain, grain is entirely different to digital noise.
Neat image does a decent job, noise reduction software isn't the complete answer to clean shots, but it goes a long way to cleaning up shots spoilt with small amounts, you can see its blended some of the noise away but it's fuzzed up the tree line a little.
Best idea is not to have it in the first place, I've no idea why at iso200 and 1/800th shutter there is so much noise in that shot.
 
Try Noisware I think it does a better job than Ninja, but every one has there own favourites
 
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