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Bring a picture (not noise-reduced) into Photoshop, duplicate the layer, select the duplicated layer in the "Layers" window, apply NeatImage to the duplicated layer, change the layer type from "Normal" to "Difference, Look at the "Info" window to see the Std. Dev. ...

Thanks Vlad, I'll give it a try.

I have a number of images taken at my Mom's 80th birthday party (mainly group shots of family with her) that turned out very underexposed. I was using a bounce flash, and had to boost the ISO to 200 (Fuji S9000) and although they looked OK in-camera, when I got to ACR, I had to boost the exposure by...

Getting back to the topic of filtering twice, what are your comments about that approach from a mathamatical/statistical viewpoint Vlad? Would a very noisy photo be better de-noised through two or more rounds of Neat Image, or can you do just as well in one pass? An interesting question. Would detai...

CHCP returns 437.

What does this number mean?

Placing the profiles in the folder "D:\NeatImage Profiles" fixes the problem. It does seem to be a "path" related issue. All files on my computer deep in subfolders have this problem. I thought path+file name length could be up to 255 characters. Mine are certainly less than this...

The profiles are in D:/Program Files/Neat Image/PROFILES/filenames.dnp If the long filename I supplied doesn't crash your machine, it must be something with my system. Since renaming the files won't affect their use, I'll go that route for now and let you know what comes of trying to fix it. Thanks ...

Is there a way to see all the areas used when building a profile? When auto-profiling, only one square is shown (the one for the rough profile), but after fine-tuning, is there a way to see what areas were used in order to add other areas that weren't used. I'm referring to profiling using your test...

Once a profile is saved (as when using the Batch Profile option), can one go back and tweak the profile to optimize and then save it under the same filename, or does one have to rename the profile.

The problem may be specific to my operating environment. You could test for yourself by copying any file and renaming it to an absurdly long name, at least 80 characters or more. Then see whether you can right click after selecting, or clicking on the "File" option on the menu bar after op...

There is no registered use of the .dnp extension. It seems that the problem arises from the long filenames used to name the profiles. If I shorten the filename, everything works OK. In fact, any filename that is long (don't know exactly where the cutoff is) causes the problem. I renamed a file in an...

I did a repair install of Windows XP (other things were amiss in the system) but still am not able to do anything with the profile files. I did notice that the files have icons associated with them that are not the same ones I see on another machine. After doing some investigation, I've found that t...

Thanks Vlad. I'll do some playing around and see whether I can resolve the issue.

Any or all. When I navigate to a folder with profiles, and then click on one of them, everything is OK. If I then click on "File" in the folder menu bar, or hit the "Delete" key, or right click to get the pop-up menu, I get the Explorer crash.

If you're using the Photoshop Plug-in, there's a wonderful Masking Action set available that I think will do exactly what you want:

http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/TLR ... oolkit.htm

Once masked, you can denoise the desired areas.