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MacRumors Giveaway: Upcoming Mac Photo Editing App 'Noiseless'

smirking said:
I downloaded the demo. I'm shooting with a Nikon d750 and it was a d300 before that. I don't really have anything great I could offer you as an example. I work my settings pretty carefully to avoid noise so anything that's noisy is usually trashed. I'll have to try this out the next time I run into a screw up that's really noisy and see how it does.

I did manage to dig up a few photos to try it on though. I found that for some photos where there was a little more grain than I wanted that Noiseless at the low or lowest setting was able to do a pretty good job of smoothing out the grain without ruining the overall texture of the photo. It's especially good with people.

It's especially good with people because it makes them look better. The filter smooths out skin blemishes, but not so much that you want to scream "uncanny valley"... at least in the lighter settings.

For the right photo, this works great. For a lot of photos a bad photographer is still going to be a bad photographer no matter how you apply filters.

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It does that. Download the demo.

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Sorry. I think it was just a visceral reaction to the demo city photo. Over filtering is a pet peeve of mine... more of a statement on people who don't know when to say when than it was on their software. I did try it and really like the results on the right kind of photo.
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The more feedback the better. Thanks guys. Alex
 
Macphun Team said:
The more feedback the better. Thanks guys. Alex
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I think this would have more of a WOW factor if it also did adjustments on underexposed photos and combined a shadows/highlight adjustment in addition to smoothing out the grain.

I'm not a professional photographer, but I'm good enough that I know how to handle settings in full manual mode and know the limits of my equipment to limit the noise in my photos so I don't really run into a lot of situations where I could say... "aw, this would have been a great photo if it weren't for the noise!" I'm probably not the ideal customer for this app... but that you've bundled this up with LR and Aperture plugins suggests to me that you're going for the segment that would include me.

By the time noise is a major issue I'm usually ready to declare it a total loss so I can't see this saving my butt. On the other hand if a photo is close, but not good enough for me because of noise, there's usually some other details in the photo that I'm eager to preserve so the success rate is at best a flip of the coin even in the ideal scenarios. I want to smooth some things out, but I don't want to lose texture on things like rocks, trees, or pavement. That's why I thought it worked well for people. You got people in a photo and more than likely that's the focus of the point so if something in the background loses texture, it's hard to notice as long as the people look great.

Now, I may not have a lot of cases where noise alone is the issue, but I've got plenty of cases where I wish I could rescue a photo that was badly underexposed or the lighting in the photo was very uneven and I have to push the levels of the shadows and highlights to try and get some semblance of a normal photo. I tried this on a few too dark photos and it looked pretty impressive because it turned a throwaway into something that might be usable for something and when something's that badly under exposed, there's not a lot of detail I'm trying to preserve anyway. I don't have the negative reaction of losing something while I gain something. I'm only gaining something.

Also if it'll automatically adjust the shadows and highlights and do it in a smart way, it'd save me a lot of time and that would be reason for me to want to buy it.
 
smirking said:
I think this would have more of a WOW factor if it also did adjustments on underexposed photos and combined a shadows/highlight adjustment in addition to smoothing out the grain.

I'm not a professional photographer, but I'm good enough that I know how to handle settings in full manual mode and know the limits of my equipment to limit the noise in my photos so I don't really run into a lot of situations where I could say... "aw, this would have been a great photo if it weren't for the noise!" I'm probably not the ideal customer for this app... but that you've bundled this up with LR and Aperture plugins suggests to me that you're going for the segment that would include me.

By the time noise is a major issue I'm usually ready to declare it a total loss so I can't see this saving my butt. On the other hand if a photo is close, but not good enough for me because of noise, there's usually some other details in the photo that I'm eager to preserve so the success rate is at best a flip of the coin even in the ideal scenarios. I want to smooth some things out, but I don't want to lose texture on things like rocks, trees, or pavement. That's why I thought it worked well for people. You got people in a photo and more than likely that's the focus of the point so if something in the background loses texture, it's hard to notice as long as the people look great.

Now, I may not have a lot of cases where noise alone is the issue, but I've got plenty of cases where I wish I could rescue a photo that was badly underexposed or the lighting in the photo was very uneven and I have to push the levels of the shadows and highlights to try and get some semblance of a normal photo. I tried this on a few too dark photos and it looked pretty impressive because it turned a throwaway into something that might be usable for something and when something's that badly under exposed, there's not a lot of detail I'm trying to preserve anyway. I don't have the negative reaction of losing something while I gain something. I'm only gaining something.

Also if it'll automatically adjust the shadows and highlights and do it in a smart way, it'd save me a lot of time and that would be reason for me to want to buy it.
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Interesting that you've mentioned it;)
 
scottwaugh said:
Really surprised at the number of Debbie Downer's taking the time to log a disparaging comment on an application they've never used...C'mon guys this is an additional application for the Mac (plugin for Adobe and Aperture) that some folks have poured their heart and souls into, give'm a chance.
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You are right, I did not mean for my comment to come off the way it did. Too quick to express my personal opinion regarding a few sample images. An aesthetic opinion, at that. I am not a professional photographer, just a light hobbyist.

The guitarist shot does look great, I will say.

I could see this app being very useful for some people.
 
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