Digital BW, The Print

Neat Image, Noise Ninja, and Grain Surgery actually use sophisticated 
wavelet math to analyze the grain and to eliminate it in a totally 
user defined way.  In general, the other noise/grain reduction 
programs rely on some kind of blurring. IMO,there is no comparison.

For a side-by-side review of grain/noise reduction software see:

www.michaelalmond.com/Articles/noise.htm

I don't agree with Michael's conclusions that Noise Ninja is the 
best, but he hasn't yet reviewed Neat Image 3.1 that is now much 
faster and still is my choice.

Jeff Randall


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, 
<Alan.Huntley@c...> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> I certainly don't intend to start a "product war", but my 
experience with nik products is that, for the most part, they are 
genearlly overpriced and limited in use. For example, noise is better 
handled by products like NeatImage or Noise Ninja, IMHO. Much better 
control and cheaper to boot! Compare nik Sharpener Pro to something 
like FocalBlade for sharpening...again, IMO, no contest!