Noise Reduction Software for Mac

Noise Reduction Effects Comparing

When we were shooting using iPhone, iPad or digital camera, noise was the enemy.

Noise, it seems to be everywhere, no matter what ISO you pick, and how good your camera, noise can and will appear. With Digital Cameras, in relation to noise, major improvements have been made over the last few years and continue to be made. However these improvements tend to be in the higher priced cameras. In some cases, no matter how good the camera, you are still going to get noise. Examples are:

- Shooting in Low Light

- Using High ISO’s

- Underexposing Images

Noise is one of the most annoying things about digital photography. The only time it's useful is if you know how to create a gritty image. There are a number of tools available that will help to remove noise from pictures and this test will try out a few to see which is better.

Denoising Effects Comparing (Super Denoising vs Neat Image vs Noise Ninja)

1 Super Denoising

It is a standalone photo noise reduction software for Mac. A very powerful noise reduction tool on Mac OS X currently available.

Using the State-of-art noise reduction Technology in the industry, Super Denoising professionally reduces low light and High ISO noise in digital camera shots, tablets and smartphones (iPad, iPhone, Galaxy, HTC), perfect for handling grainy and underexposed digital photos.

Super Denoising is indispensable in high-precision night shots taken with DSLr and low-light (indoors, night, no-flash, astro) and high-speed (sport, action, children) photography captured by smartphones, which offer you no control over the ISO.

2 Neat Image

Quote from Publisher: “Neat Image is a digital noise reduction software for Mac designed to reduce visible noise and grain in digital photographic images. It is a Mac noise reduction tool for owners of digital cameras, flatbed and slide scanners; and is for use by both professional photographers, and digital image processing enthusiasts. Neat Image reduces the high ISO noise associated with image sensors in digital cameras and scanners, it can also reduce the film grain and color banding, and at the same time makes images sharper.”

Neat Image noise reduction software is available for Windows, Mac, Linux as a plug-in for Photoshop and standalone

3 Noise Ninja

Quote from Publisher: “Noise Ninja noise reduction software for Mac solves the image noise problem using patent-pending technology. It is built to bring the most out of raw camera files and high-quality film scans, with high-precision floating point calculations and high-bit-depth image storage used throughout. Noise Ninja is highly adaptable to a variety of professional and amateur workflows, whether you want a "one-button" automated solution or complete manual control. "

Photo Noise Reduction Effects Comparing:

1 Strong Noise Fixing

Original	Fixing by Super Denoising	Fixing by Neat Image	Fixing by Noise Ninja

Note: The photo processed by Super Denoising was more close to original photo from color, light and details. The photo processed by neat image was not bad, but color was totally changed. And the photo became blurred after original photo noise was reduced by Ninja.

2 Weak Noise Fixing:

Original	Fixing by Super Denoising	Fixing by Neat Image	Fixing by Noise Ninja

Note: The photo processed by Super Denoising not only recovered details but also obtained sharp edges. The photos that noise reduced by neat image and Noise Ninja were too smooth and lack of details.

3 Portrait Beautify:

The original photo is full of color noise.

Original	Fixing by Super Denoising	Fixing by Neat Image	Fixing by Noise Ninja

Note: Color noise was removed by Super Denoising. But much noise could not be removed by Neat image. The photo after processed by Noise Ninja became blurred.

4 Jpeg Artifacts Fixing:

Original	Fixing by Super Denoising	Fixing by Neat Image	Fixing by Noise Ninja

Notes: Super Denoising perfectly fixed Jpeg Artifacts. However, both neat image and Noise Ninja totally could not work on Jpeg Artifacts.

Conclusion:
There are still some other photo noise reduction softwares for Mac available in the market. Try yourself to compare photo-processing result to get your favorite one to help you to remove noise from photos.