I'm interested in purchasing some noise reduction software and I'm kind of torn between Noise Ninja and Neat Image. I've tried the demos of both. I like the results from Neat Image slightly more, but I've been informed by someone that a friend of hers had his Mac trashed when he installed Neat Image. I've also been told by someone that Noise Ninja can get some excellent results but I would have to play with the settings and the manual is rather vague about what the settings control. Anyone have any recommendations? Personal experience? Samples?

I´ve only tried out the demo-version of Noise Ninja, but i gotta say i definitly prefered NeatImage. My computer has never crashed because of it, but i´m not on a Mac either. But one thing that i find a bit annoying with NeatImage, is that ever so often when i use it as a plug-in from Photoshop.....it deletes all my palettes as it ships the picture back to PS. Not a biggie since i can just restore palettes, but still quite annoying at times. Good luck with your decision.

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http://photography.about.com/od/noisereduction/ Just in case you need some additional information, the above link may help you make your decision...

I've been using Neat Image for a while now and have to say I like the results I got better than what I got using a Noise Ninja demo, though it is a decent program as well. Also, I am on a Mac (a couple actually) and none of mine had problems with it.

Thanks for the input guys. Zacko - Since I'm pretty new to using Photoshop, to problem with the custom palettes won't be much of an issue for me know, but thanks for the heads up when I start using them. gwfa - I love your Nina images. It's hard to tell that you had to de-noise the image. I may have some other questions for you about how you shoot. As you can tell by my most recent galley postings, I'm starting to do some similiar type photography. girsempa - Thanks for the link and the reviews were an interesting read. TwoPynts - Thanks. Good to know that Neat Image has not caused problems on the Mac. Still is going to be a hard decision.

This may help...if you keep the images under 1024 for web use, the free version of Neat Image works just fine. I used to do that before I sprang for the full version. Whichever way you go, good luck! ~Kort