Hey, just a quick note to anyone out there who's on a budget and can't afford the couple hundred dollars for a noise/grain reduction program. Check out THIS link. It's a free, stand-alone program written by Dan Kozub called HeliconNoiseFilter. It may be free, but it does a fantastic job of removing grain/noise from an image without over-softening an image. Think this makes my top 5 free software list. "The GIMP" will probably forever hold the #1 spot. Even though I use Photoshop, to have a Photoshop level image editing program like "The GIMP" available for free just boggles my mind. :) -=>Donald

Thanks for the link! This program works amazingly well! -Taltos