Frank Gore <g...@projectpontiac.com> writes: > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Byram <for...@gimpusers.com> wrote: >> My D3000 does a pretty lousy job at 800 and 1600. I've tried playing with >> some of the tools recommended in Goelker's "GIMP 2.6 for Photographers" >> but didn't really see any noticeable improvements. Also tried using the >> wavelet denoise in UFraw. I downloaded a wavelet-denoise plugin and that >> seems to work a little better. All tools were used on the single RGB layer. >> >> Any recommendations would be appreciated (aside from upgrading my >> camera- LOL) as I have a great but grainy shot of a Racoon at ISO 1600 >> that I'd love to print. > > I do all my de-noising outside of Gimp, using either Digikam or a > specific tool for the job (ie. Noise Ninja for Linux, which is > commercial). For the most part, I've found all noise reduction plugins > for Gimp to be lacking, especially for professional photography. > > The only exception would be GMIC, which has the potential to be an > amazing noise reduction tool. It's like the Swiss army knife of Gimp > plugins. Specifically, Anisotropic Smoothing in the Enhancement > category can generate some outstanding results. Problem is, the > options are so numerous and arcane, I can't make heads of tails of > them. I've wasted tons of time adjusting options blindly until I was > happy with the results... but then I couldn't figure out WHY the > settings worked, so I couldn't really reproduce them reliably. Maybe > you'd have better luck with it: > > http://gmic.sourceforge.net/
It's rather hard to find _simple_ tutorials for G'MIC, but see e.g. https://jcornuz.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/gmic-next-gen-greycstoration/ -Kevin _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
