User Guide

User Guide Neat Image

7 20-Nov-03

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Adjust the noise filter and sharpening

settings to achieve desired level of noise

reduction and sharpening

- select any image area and Neat Image

will prepare a preview;

- vary the filter settings (start with the

noise reduction amount in the Y

channel) and immediately see the

preview result;

- as soon as you are happy with the

preview proceed to the next step;

Process the input image

- apply filter to the whole image;

- when processing is finished, evaluate

the resulting output image by

comparing it with the input image;

- save the output image to a file on the

disk.

3.2. Running Neat Image on a sample image

To help you start using Neat Image, we have prepared a test-kit. You can download it from the Neat

Image web page: test-kit

for Neat Image (250KB). Having downloaded, please unzip it to a new

folder/directory.

The test-kit contains a sample image: the file SampleImage.jpg. This image is a part of typical photo

taken with digital camera (Nikon CoolPix 950 in this case). Detailed information about the test image is

available in the file SampleImageInfo.txt.

Please start Neat Image and follow the steps below to see how it can improve the image:

Step 1. Open the sample image

1. Click

on the toolbar of the Input Image tab:

2. In the Open input image file dialog, navigate to the folder/directory where the sample image

has been unzipped and double click on the file SampleImage.jpg;

Neat Image will open the sample image.

You will see that there is strong noise in the image, especially in the sky area (use zoom and scroll to see