No matter how powerful and expensive digital cameras and scanner can be, they still can produce images with visual defects like grain and noise if unsuitable conditions are met (low-light indoors photos, high-speed actions such as sports, etc.). For such cases, applications like this one are of great help. Neat Image is a photo enhancement utility that lets you apply filters and reduce the visible noise and grain problems from your pictures.
Though it’s basically an image processing filter, and this kind of applications are usually provided as plug-ins for large graphic suites like Adobe Photoshop, Neat Image is actually offered as a simple, stand-alone application, which makes it quite easy and convenient to use, especially by amateurs that don’t have Photoshop or other expensive graphic suites installed on their systems.
The best thing about this tool is the high accuracy of the noise reduction algorithm. This powerful filter ensures that the noise problems are eliminated from your photos in a fast and effective manner. Furthermore, it offers handy noise profiles that allow adapting the noise reduction to specific imaging device. I also like about this tool the fact that it can solve JPEG artifacts and film grains, besides the typical ISO noises.
To sum it all up, Neat Image is an excellent solution for whenever you want to perform denoising of your digital photos. It’s really accurate, easy-to-use and affordable.
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very easy to work with.