Marc Pampols

I’ve been using some noise removal software for special situations like this one I show below, this picture was taken from the Top of the Rock, in the Rockefeller Building, New York.

If you look close, you’ll clearly see noise specially at the sky, this crops are at 100%  

New York original picture

The best two programs I’ve ever used are Neat Image and Noise Ninja, both available as a standalone program and a photoshop plugin.

Picturecode Noise Ninja: After some usage, I prefer this one. It’s easy to use, fast, “cheap” and produces in my opinion, better results than Neat Image.

Neat Image: This one is also very nice but in my tests always producted more artifacts than Noise Ninja.

And… after applying a noise reduction program (in this case, Noise Ninja) the New York picture looks better:

New York filtered noise with Noise Ninja

A lot of walking across the island of manhattan in New York during the past 10 days with some of my friends… I am still tired! and back to work tomorrow Monday :(

Also I have uploaded some pictures, click here to view the flickr album about the trip.

Everything was great, I think everyone should visit “the big apple” at least once in their lifetime.