The results speak for themselves. I wasn't overly happy with how my night shots came out on Tuesday, started doing some research, and stumbled across this digital noise reduction program called Neat Image (www.neatimage.com). The results below are anywhere from 70 to 85% noise reduction and I am impressed for freeware:

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Whatcha think??? Improvement?

Mods, wasn't sure if this was OT or Multimedia. Post is to say "Hey check out this freebie I found" though it does contain pics too......your call if you want to move.

Wow, that actually does make a big difference! Nice find!

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I was honestly AMAZED that a freeware program did that. The first pic was 70%, the second and last were 80, the third was 85%. This will REALLY helpl the night shots out and hopefully someone else finds it useful.

im hammered adn i catn tell a differentce

o0o0o0o0o0o0o and ur haivnig a babye!

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LMAO, amazingly enough, so is my wife. Please for the love of god man don't call me at 2 AM tonight!!!! Need my beauty sleep! You need to make a trip out here Dustin!!!!! Bring the Celi, hang out, drink.......drink........

Pics look great, but in all honesty, I can't tell the bloody difference.

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The last two pics show it the best. Look at the red on the car in the before pics?? See how it's all blotchy like it's got dark spots?? Now look at the after pic, and you can see how the color has been smoothed and evened out. All the program did was a reduction in the blotchy dark spots (noise) from the digital imaging.

I can see it a very little bit, mainly on the last one, but I think that the image hosting site that you used might have reduced the quality to where its not that noticeable for us.

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Good point. I'm going to upload a few of them to my website tonight so I'll post back up with those and see if there's a difference. I use photoshop to cut them from the native 8mp resolution to a 1024x768 for my website (mostof the time at least) so the quality loss should be minimal there.

Thanks for sharing!!!! I've been looking for something just like this! Now hopefully it'll work on a Mac

you should look into picasa as well. really helps in making adjustments to your photos.

wow..... i am slightly embarrassed because of that awesome post.... wow

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Bah, don't be. It gave me a good laugh!