Neatimage is the best noise reduction tool available.
Many digital cameras and web-cameras can take pictures which are really not clear at low light. So, the pictures can be noisy, or we can see many small dark spots throughout in the picture.
Different cameras give different variations in the pictures taken. But a single camera gives the same kind of error / noise in different pictures taken (at different time).
Neatimage can scan a picture to find out / create the noise profile for a particular camera. By using that profile, we can remove the noise and make our picture clear.
The main problem is that it scans for noise and fills those areas by the data / colour available from the nearby pixel. So, the picture appears blurred.
We can manage set filter settings to achieve the desired level of noise reduction
The sharpening Filter to make images look sharper without amplification of noise. It can be used after removing noise, to remove that blurr effect.
Queued processing / batch processing can be done for a lot pictures taken from the same or different cameras by specifying the noise profile or by setting it to find it automatically. Preview of the noise filter for any selected image area is available.
Anyway, this is a program that you must have if you have a digital camera or a camera phone.
v7.0 [Aug 29, 2011]
Higher performance: the first GPU-accelerated version of Neat Image standalone
CUDA support: faster noise reduction using modern CUDA-compatible GPUs
For example, on NVidia GTX 470 Neat Image is about x2.5 faster than on Intel i7 and x3-x7 faster than on Intel i5 or Core2 Duo
Multiple GPU support
Neat Image works even faster with two or more CUDA GPUs
CPUs and GPUs working together
Neat Image can use CPUs and GPUs at the same time for even faster processing
Automated optimization of performance settings for multi-core, multi-CPU and multi-GPU systems
Built-in benchmark to measure image processing speed on specific hardware
Built-in performance optimizer in Neat Image Preferences
Additional performance optimizations throughout the application:
Faster batch processing: x1.5 faster than in previous version
Faster individual image processing: x1.2 faster than in previous version
Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions available
Improved user interface
Multi-image and single-image modes
Improved task editor to work on individual images
Detailed and thumbnail-only list of tasks to work with many images
New and improved batching facilities
Redesigned graphics elements throughout the application
More intuitive noise profile equalizer with adjustable graphs
Improved image viewer with several modes and adjustable brightness
Component viewer built directly into image viewer
Automated preview (full window or selected area)
More improvements
Support for 32-bit per channel images (in Pro edition, in addition to 8-bit and 16-bit ones) to enable HDR post-processing workflows
Smart Profile: automatically uses two different profiling methods and selects the better resulting profile for more accurate noise reduction
Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon cameras:
D7000, D3100, P500, P300, P7000, S8100, etc.
Converts documents and multimedia files to other formats with batch support
