User Guide

User Guide Neat Image
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To open a previously saved filter preset
⇒ Click
(the Open filter preset… button, pink disk) in the Filter Preset box or select the Filter
| Load Filter Settings from Preset… menu item. In the Open filter preset dialog box, specify the
name of the filter preset to be opened.
or
Select a preset using the popup menu: click on the button on the side of the preset name shown in
the top part of the Filter Preset box, and select a preset from the popup menu.
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There are several pre-written filter presets in the PRESETS subfolder of installed Neat Image
application. Please explore these presets to see what combinations and values of the noise and
sharpening filter’s settings can be used to solve typical tasks (names of the presets explain these tasks).
4.4. Step IV. Apply filter to the input image
Use the Output Image tab in the Filtration Job Editor:
To apply the filtration to the input image
1) Select output image type
⇒ Select the output image type from the list in the Filter Output box (24-bit RGB/48-bit RGB;
8-bit/16-bit Grayscale). The output image type can be made different from the input image type. In
this case, the input image will be internally converted during processing.
2) Apply the filtration
⇒ Click
(the Apply button)
on the toolbar or select the Filter | Apply
menu item.
Processing may take a few minutes
(depending on the speed of your
computer's CPU and size of the image).
During this time, you can minimize the
Filtration Job Editor window.
When the filtration is completed, you can compare the output and input images. Click
(the
Compare button) on the toolbar or just click the output image. If the filtration result is not satisfactory,
please return to Step III, page 10, to change some of the filter settings, or to Step II, page 9, to build a
new or improve the current noise profile to better match the noise of the input image.
See Filtration options, page 38, for more details about the following filtration-related options of Neat
Image: audible indication and filter process priority.
4.5. Step V. Save the output image
Use the Output Image tab in the Filtration Job Editor:
To save the output image
⇒ Click
(the Save output image as… button) on the toolbar or select the File | Save Output
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If there is no popup menu, check the Folder options of Neat Image, see page 38.
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eat Image is a CPU-intensive application, and in the
current implementation, the processor's speed is the most
critical. On Pentium IV 1.4GHz, processing a 2-megapixel
image takes about 20 seconds (Neat Image v3.0). On a
computer of typical configuration, the processing time is
linear with res
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