On 3 Oct 2009 09:42:26 GMT, Chris Malcolm wrote:

David J Taylor wrote:
"Alan Browne" wrote in message
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Good one. Are you happy? No it doesn't. You have to buy 3rd party
s/w. Maybe Adobe are being bribed to keep it out?

I tried one of the noise reduction programs and found it to make things
too smooth (in plain areas) and wipe out fine detail in other areas.
Gave up on it. (Noise Ninja I believe...).

Yes, I'm happy with Paint Shop Pro 10, and I'm very surprised that the
very expensive Adobe program does not offer such a noise-reduction
facility. PSP's NR seems to work well.

As I said, I find it best to compare with and without NR. Sometimes it's
best to leave the grain for a "newsy" effect, other times the noise,
particularly if it's coloured noise, can be slightly objectionable.

Since the detail is more in the luminance, and chromatic noise is
usually much more objectionable, a good noise reduction tool should
have the option of reducing chromatic noise and luminance noise to
different degrees.

"... should have ..."?!?!?

They all do.

Proof again, that you're nothing but an armchair-photographer troll who's
never used anything associated with photography, including cameras.