Setting Noise Reduction Options with Noise Ninja

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The advanced Noise Ninja Registered tool provides controls to reduce the digital noise in the image while preserving sharpness and detail. To use the these controls, you must be a registered user of Noise Ninja™.

For more information about Noise Ninja, see the Understanding Advanced Image Editing Tools topic. Also, consult your Noise Ninja Plug-In User Guide published by PictureCode.

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To set the crop and rotation options:

1.From the Tools menu, click Basic.
2.In the drop-down menu, click Noise Ninja Registered.
3.Click Enable Noise Ninja to activate the Noise Ninja controls.
4.Click Coarse Noise if you want to enable Noise Ninja's coarse noise filter to remove low-frequency noise in the Chroma channel.
5.Click Auto Profile if you want to generate a noise profile for the image. (Note: The auto generated profile is not saved automatically.)
6.Click Turbo Mode to enable faster processing of noise reduction settings.

 

Note: To achieve faster processing in turbo mode, there is a slight decrease in noise reduction quality. If your image contains strong diagonal lines, you might notice an aliasing effect in turbo mode.

 

1.To adjust the Luma (grayscale/brightness) settings:
oClick the Luma tab.
oDrag the Strength slider to increase or decrease the overall strength of the Luma channel in the noise reduction process.
oDrag the Contrast slider to increase or decrease the contrast in the Luma channel.
oDrag the Smoothness slider to increase or decrease the noise levels estimated by the noise profile in the Luma channel.
1.To adjust the Chroma (color hue and saturation) settings:
oClick the Chroma tab.
oDrag the Strength slider to the right to increase or decrease the overall strength of the Chroma channel in the noise reduction process.
oDrag the Contrast slider to increase or decrease the contrast in the Chroma channel.
oDrag the Smoothness slider to increase or decrease the noise levels estimated by the noise profile. Increasing smoothness isolated specs in even-colored areas within the Chroma channel.
1.To adjust the USM (unsharp mask) settings:
oClick the USM tab.
oClick the Amount slider and drag the slider to increase or decrease the overall sharpness of the image and the contrast between neighboring pixels.
oClick the Radius slider and drag the slider to the right to increase the pixel radius. Drag the slider to the left to decrease the pixel radius.
1.To use a custom profile or generate a noise profile:
oClick the Profile tab.
oTo load a custom noise profile, click the ... (Browse) button.
oBrowse to the noise profile file, select it, and click Open.

 

Note: Noise profiles from the PictureCode web site are not compatible with Bibble.

 

oIf you want to generate a noise profile using noise information from the current image, click Generate Profile. You will be prompted to name and save the profile to your file system.

Understanding Basic Image Editing Tools

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