Comments on: Indigo, New Site and New Release (0.6 test 1)

By: Mikkel

Mikkel — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:30:29 +0000

I have tried NeatImage, NoiseNinja, and a third program called Noiseware (http://www.imagenomic.com/) on an Indigo render of mine. In my opinion, Noiseware produced much better results than the other two and is easier to use. There is a free 'Community Edition' of Noiseware which has some limitations compared to the full versions but it's still very usable. It certainly saves some hours of Indigo render time!

By: Bmud

Bmud — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 07:23:42 +0000

To anyone interested in learning the ins and outs of Fast Fourier Transform noise reduction (in a more manual sense) simply because its very interesting… check out this thread — and accompanying tutorial(s) on RetouchPRO

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10911&page=1&pp=15

By: jaycun

jaycun — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:28:05 +0000

A possible program to help reduce noise could also be VirtualDub. Tread the image like a single frame of a movie, apply all the denoising filters you want, then render to image sequence.

Just a thought.

By: Michael Crawford

Michael Crawford — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:45:08 +0000

Noisy renders are realistic. Film grain is a normal part of photography and if the goal is making a "photorealistic" image than it should include film grain. Just blur it by maybe .25 – .5 pixels gaussian and it looks perfect.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:57:04 +0000

Neat Image is nice, so is Noise Ninja.

http://www.picturecode.com/

Been using it the past year for my photography.

By: thoro

thoro — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:13:26 +0000

@Eugene: Yes, I took a look at it – I will do some more tests and look at the 'IT department' .blend file to get an idea.

Cool, here at work we've got some really fast servers and my colleagues from the IT department are currently preparing a render machine for me. Maybe I can reach this server from home, too :-).

By: ccherrett

ccherrett — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:23:01 +0000

Hoehrer: thanks for posting the GREYCstoration link I was looking for it but forgot it's name. What a great little tool.

By: Eugene (etr9j)

Eugene (etr9j) — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:04:34 +0000

@thoro
The Indigo forums are the place to go definitely :)

Did you take a look at the quick material setting instruction at http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Tutorials/Indigo_Renderer?

By: Lazareus

Lazareus — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:29:41 +0000

That Neat Image software mentioned above is pretty awesome. Take a look at the examples page…

By: tom

tom — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:31:53 +0000

hell, what a renderer!!!