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- Price: Free to try (Saving to JPEGs only); $29.90 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: October 05, 2006
- Total Downloads: 126,067
- Downloads last week: 179
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 26 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
One disadvantage of digital cameras is the visible grain--or noise--that may significantly degrade image quality. Neat Image is a filtering application that mutes the multicolored spots or textured appearance created by digital photos. It doesn't just use a bunch of blur and sharpen filters; instead, it studies the noise profile of your camera and uses a sophisticated algorithm to cancel or balance the noise of an image. You can browse the publisher's site to find noise profiles for many digital cameras and scanners.
The utility draws a clear distinction between noise and details in images, and we were thoroughly impressed with its results. Neat Image did an effective job at enhancing images without affecting quality, particularly in the deep shadows or solid-color areas of our photographs. The program is plenty fast if your PC has a good deal of RAM and processing power, but it may be a bit sluggish on older machines. Overall, Neat Image makes pictures squeaky-clean and seems like a fine addition to any digital photographer's arsenal.
Publisher's description
From ABSoft :Neat Image is a digital filter designed to reduce visible noise and grain in digital photographic images. It is a tool for owners of digital cameras, and flatbed and slide scanners; and is for use by both professional photographers, and digital-image processing enthusiasts. Neat Image reduces the high ISO noise associated with image sensors in digital cameras and scanners, the film grain visible in scanned slides and negatives, JPEG artifacts of over-compressed images, and color banding.
Depending on edition, Neat Image works as a standalone application and/or as a plug-in for Photoshop CS2/CS/7/6/5, Elements 4/3/2, Paint Shop Pro X/9/8/7, PhotoImpact XL/10/8, Photopaint, and Microsoft Digital Image Pro. Version 5.5 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
What's new in this version:
- Plug-in: improved support for large images in Photoshop CS/CS2
- Support for Windows large memory configuration (/3GB switch)
- Improved support for Canon cameras
- Some Canon S3 IS images produced an error message when opened in Neat Image, fixed
- Some TIFF files saved by Autodesk Maya could not be opened in Neat Image, fixed
- Plug-in: cosmetic corrections in Options
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