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1. MG 278 jpg D Photo Sen Photo MG_ 311 jp9 D Photo Sen Photos Ma s25 jpg D Photo Sen Photo MG 7395 jpg D Photo Sen Photo MG 7468 ipg D Photo Sen Photo MG_7470JPG D Photo Sen Photos MG 7516 jpg O Photo Sern Photo MG_7ab jpg D Photo Sern Photo MG_ 7879 jpg D Photo Sen Photo MG_ 7892 jpg D Photo Sen Photo MG_ 893 jpg D Photo Sen Photo MG _7998 JPG D Photo Sen Photo MG_s410 JPG D Photo Sen Photo MG 6410 un jpg D Photo oen Photos MG 8419 JPG D Photo Sen Photo MG_8422 JPG D Photo Sen Photo MG 8433 JPG Remove From List MagicD enoiter E MagicD enoiserProcessed Customize your workspace Select images to be processed using the Browse button Choose MagicDenoiser as script If you run script in Silent mode then all images will be processed with the same plug in parameters as _ used when the script was recorded The plugin s dialog will not appear lf you run script in Interactive mode you will be able to adjust the plugins parameters in the plugin s dialog Result will be saved depending on chosen Save Mode option Choose the Copy and set output folder In this case the processed files will be saved in that folder with the same names Press Start button The selected files will be processed You can customize your workspace in Corel JASC Paint Shop Pro family e Run Customize command V2. Skil ImageSkill Software Magic Denoiser v1 5 User s Manual Table of Contents ite eE E i S geen E tees aie AE EEA E enter OE T E eee ne nea eet A eee eter ee 2 Features at a GIA CC iii wer vsidiratoresaucnetd cue tdadnrdadnieananniniromiensutonosdiverebdednadudosendudsinacwlidiesukasdicsntetucuebindesdud 2 Minimum System Requirements cess ce ccncceseerensecezece ogeaeincnarensceeacncersecer aurea gnieequeateereabeseasancneeereaceueese 3 Registering ImageSkill Magic D NOlSel ccccccsececseeeeeceeseeceececseuseecauseeceueeessaseessenseesaueeessaaes 3 Geng Technical SUPPOT aeeemetnee tet ene eee ey Meee erin Smee inap naida aaa aniidae ianiai 3 ESEE E E AIEA EEA EE A ees EA OE E E A E A E O A EET 4 Denoising ken cla cl eee ect ete eee eee eee eee eee eee eee meee Ty Arrn anen eee ee etre 4 WACC Image WMS aes 2 eters seca r generac asec cence ee atseee eo nd ecco N 4 Why the image appears NOISY cccceeccccseeeeeceeeeceeeeeeceeseesseeeeeseeeeeseeseesseeeeseeeeeseeeesseeeeseneees 5 How do some digital camera characteristics and settings influence noise level 06 5 Noise reduction TOO S Se penccc ees cepsvescsecageentsene anactetnce nineeaote ancecdessoceosaacaen nase eecissdacincnaten 7 installing and Uninstalling eissirpe i a seaniaaeweseeaiedsentan Saleculaniegtesadetecsexineacteree 9 CPS TE O e E E EREE E E A E 10 A TOOG Tee E E node E E E A E 11 B Noise reduction controls na
3. Xtreme e Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 e Macromedia Fireworks 2004 8 e Ulead Photolmpact 8 9 10 11 12 Plug in can also work under the following graphics hosts e XnView 1 8 and older e IrfanView e Corel Painter This is not an exhaustive list The plug in may be compatible with other graphic hosts as well In order to uninstall the plug in run uninstaller file uninstall exe or use Add and Remove Programs item in the Control Panel or Start Menu ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 9 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual How does the plug in Magic Denoiser work User interface Magic Denoiser has 4 main sections A Toolbar B Grainy noise reduction controls C Impulse noise reduction control D Fine details adjustment Pressing the OK button causes any processing to be carried out on the full image and a return to the host program Pressing the Cancel button causes a return to the graphic host leaving the source image unchanged The Help button runs short HTML help The plug in processes image data automatically after changing any of the interface parameters in B C and D Magic Denoiser 100 SEs Ss oe e iS I Presets wet aA Select noize pattern Clicking and dragging any comer of the image You car adjust the size of the pattern _ Remove impulse nois Size of speckles E 100 f Click and drag to scroll image in desired direction Click image to see original
4. would like to suppress Remove impulse noise check this flag to clean up Remove impulse nose noise like the salt and pepper filter Size of speckles defines the size of speckles like the salt and Size of speckles pepper filter The result of impulse noise removing on the nose point from the image above is shown in the relevant resized fragments below The left one was produced with unchecked Remove impulse noise while the right one was processed with this option checked and Size of speckles is set equal to 3 You can easily see the small line in the left is absent in the right one ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 12 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual D Fine details adjustments Fine details adjustments give the user some flexibility in controlling the image sharpness during the process of noise reduction Of course sharpening is a matter of personal taste and this control contains Sharpen and Soften options that can make the resultant image sharper or softer Both of these options are available when check box Adjust fine details is checked The user can choose the desired options by clicking on the relevant radio button Sharpen or Soften Adjust fine details check this flag to make the radio buttons available Sharpen clicking on Soften clicking on this this radio button allows radio button allows the the user to get a user to achieve a softer sharper image image If you f
5. Effects i Photo Effects gt Reflection Effects ve Texture Effects ad User Defined Filter ut ail i i Image Skill Background Remover ae a Magic Denoiser Image Repainter Demo F Image Repainter W Magic Denoiser gt Magic Enhancer Lite G Magic Sharpener Al Qutliner B Tile Builder 1 1 Demo F Tile Builder ImageSkill Magic Denoiser now starts up ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 15 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual Image denoising In order to denoise an image simply go through the steps below each of which were described in detail earlier Select Noise pattern and adjust its size first or load relevant preset from plug in Presets Bear in mind that the noise reduction result strongly depends on what noise pattern you choose for noise estimates So the noise pattern must be appropriate for the particular image in question Set the Noise suppression parameter defining the strength of the noise reduction It varies from 0 to 100 where O corresponds to only the original image viewing while a setting of 100 shows very strong image denoising We recommend using the default setting of 50 as a good starting point for this control Set the Original Processed parameter defining the extent of the blending the processed image with the original one It varies from 0 to 100 and 0 setting corresponds to only the Original image viewing while a setting of 100 shows solely the denoised image We recommend
6. The current image zoom factor the progress bar and the prompt line are placed at the bottom of main window ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 10 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual A Toolbar Zoom zoom in and out Pan let you scroll image of the image when ct working with fine details in any direction B Noise reduction controls Click on Select noise pattern allows you to T Clicking and place noise sampling dragging any box in the image in LW comer of the uniform areas Clicking mage you can and dragging any of adjust the size corners you can adjust oof the pattern the box s size Noise suppression defines the strength of the BL grainy noise reduction Original Processed defines the extent of the oe processed image blending with the original image Clicking on the button Select noise pattern a reduced image copy appears in the preview window with the square box somewhere within it The noise profile is obtained from this box ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 11 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual The box has a size of 80x80 pixels by default but you can make it more or less by clicking and dragging any of the corners By clicking and dragging with the left mouse button you can move this pattern to any place of the image where you think an appropriate noise profile might be located We suggest choosing a clear
7. allows the user to create and use presets for specific noise patterns It processes 16 bit images Most importantly the Magic Denoiser plug in produces excellent quality results What kind of noise does the Magic Denoiser plug in remove The Magic Denoiser plug in is designed to remove quasi random noise in an image produced by sensor noise throughout the image Examples of such noise were shown above It can also cope with impulse noise independently of grainy noise reduction this is the type of noise reduced using the Salt and Pepper filter in Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop What kind of noise does the Magic Denoiser plug in not remove The Magic Denoiser plug in does not cope with JPEG artifacts ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 8 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual Installing and uninstalling Download and run the setup file The installer finds all the suitable graphic hosts on your computer Choose one of them from the list and then the installer automatically installs the plug in If you want to install the plug in in another folder select item Other path and set the path In this case you must set the Plug ins path of your graphic host to setup folder Plug in s installer automatically detects the following graphic host applications e Adobe Photoshop 7 CS CS2 CS3 CS4 e Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 3 4 5 e Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7 8 9 e Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X X1 X2 e Corel Photo Paint 11 12 e Xara
8. annnennnneennsenenrernosnrnrenrrnerrnrrrrrsnrrrrnerserreennrrnnrerrnrrsnrernnrreneeeee 11 C Impulse noise reduction control cccccccseeeececeeeeeeeceeeeeeeseeeeeeeseaeeeeseaeeeeesesaeeeeessaeeeesaenes 12 Uy FTV et O aE e E EEA A 13 Working with Magic Denoiser secencecsdvarsoeseaucasaucectvecoes avon deectavnqcvnts note nuenated olvasncuasvetvausdemuninnnenoss 15 POI e a a cee AE cet resect meine niece EET A ore Se reece E E A EE denna 15 eT UVC Magie Deno Ei ersun einn esa a EA Or Eer S ne EASAN EE NEEN 15 BET TAOS MN EE E A I A A PETO E E N AA A E TEE E 16 Scripting Actions feature a ace apeere seine oatagera sc eaescenesatoteeccivwecenceeencatcsieyunicccenssccseeteneseat ates seudeteeue 16 FAQ and TroubleShooting cccccccccccesssccceeeceeseecececeaeeeeceeeseeesseceesesueaeceeessaeeeceeesssaaaeeeeeessaaeeeeees 20 can t find Magic Denoiser in my graphic host s Effects Menu cccesecessseeeseeseeeneeeeensaeeens 20 can t run Magic Denoiser or Magic Denoiser is greyed out in graphic host s Effects menu 20 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual Introduction Magic Denoiser is an amazing noise reduction Photoshop compatible plug in for the Windows Operating System designed by ImageSkill Software The plug in can also work with other commercial software products such as Adobe Photoshop Elements Corel Jasc Paint Shop Pro Microsoft Digital Image Suite and other free software like IrfanView and XnVi
9. at with 8 or 16 bit channel If image has CMYK LAB or something other format you will have to convert it to RGB or Grayscale There is another possible reason for this at least if you use Paint Shop Pro X There appears to be a bug in PSP X such that on power up it sometimes does not recognise the existence of the plug ins Trial and error has shown that usually if you click through to the screen above and then select or deselect Use sub folders the plug ins are then available Please note that this is not a fault with Magic Denoiser NOTE If you did not find the answer to your questions send your questions to support imageskill com or send them to support forum http forum imageskill com ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 20
10. d and the settings used by the user Most of these techniques need to know the unique fingerprint of the noise characteristics that a particular model of camera produces at each different ISO setting You can simply create a noise profile this is discussed later for your camera s major ISO settings you use or download the specific profile from the internet Do a Google search for Noise profiles and this will give you several sources of noise profiles However the absence of a pre made noise profile does preclude the user from working directly on any new image In that case the image must have a uniform area of a specific size depending on the technique chosen If there is no appropriate area of that size in the image the user is nevertheless able to make the noise reduction but risks getting rather over smooth result There are several good noise reduction programs plugins on the market but in the main they are significantly harder to learn and also rather more expensive Two of the more popular are Noise Ninja Professional and Neat Image Pro These tools have many seitings and the user will have to be prepared to read the manual in detail and practice in order to acquire the necessary skills lf you do not want to read and understand a manual and tutorials then Magic Denoiser plug in is especially for you lt has a simple and intuitive user interface with only a few controls and adjustments It is very fast almost instant processing It
11. e user to obtain results that are comparable with those obtained with other noise reduction tools which have much more complex user interfaces and at a somewhat higher price On the user interface there is also a section called Adjust fine details which if the relevant check box is ticked allows the Sharpness and Softness of the image to be adjusted Finally there is a section unique to Magic Denoiser which allows the user to blend the cleaned up image with the original at infinitely variable amounts to achieve a more lifelike image Features at a glance e Very simple and intuitive user interface with only a few controls e Very rapid image noise reduction e Easy way to create and use presets for specific noise patterns e Original high speed denoising algorithm removing small medium and large scale grainy noise e Removes impulse noise independently from grainy noise e Performs fine details adjustments viz sharpen and soften e Provides simple noise pattern size and location adjustment e Allows the strength of the noise reduction to be varied e Produces high quality noise reduced images e Supports script action feature e Has 16 bit image support ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 2 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual Minimum System Requirements Computer Pentium 400MHz Operation System Win98 Win200 Win2003 Win XP Win NT3 Win NT4m Win Vista Hard Drive you must have about 3 Mb of free space RAM 64Mb Mi
12. ew A new version 1 5 of the Magic Denoiser has an improved user friendly interface allowing users to adjust if necessary the automatic noise filtering result by changing the size and location of the noise pattern and the strength of the noise suppression Also new to version 1 5 an impulse noise removing option has been added Everyone dealing with digital images knows how annoying noise is in a photograph and how long it takes to find optimal settings for a given noise reduction technique to produce an acceptable result Magic Denoiser allows a user to dramatically improve the look of images by cleaning up the grainy noise nearly automatically and instantly while Keeping various image features and fine details unchanged The user only needs to pick out a noise sample and location on an image where noise is obvious and Magic Denoiser cleans up the noise almost instantly If required the user can tick the relevant check box and reduce impulse noise as well When the sensor in the digital camera is small as in all cameras below DSLR s or when a high ISO setting and or long exposure is are used an efficient means of removing noise such as Magic Denoiser must be used The plug in is also very useful for noise reduction in a series of image shots especially when the ISO camera setting and exposure times are fixed and produced nearly the same noise in each photo because the series of photographs may then be run as a batch Magic Denoiser allows th
13. heless keep your camera from external excessive heat and switch off when not in use To learn more about various Digital Camera noise characteristics visit http Awww imaging resource com DIGCAM01 HTM In spite of manufactures provide us with better and better sensor noise characteristics and built in camera noise reduction capability there are still instances when we have to shoot at very high ISOs or the camera that we are using has inherent limitations in this regard Fortunately there are various computer noise reduction techniques available that can help us Noise reduction techniques Simple denoising technique Just about the simplest method of reducing the effects of noise is to use Gaussian Blur In Paint Shop Pro click Adjust gt Blur gt Gaussian Blur ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 ri ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual Try a Radius setting of 1 and click OK For further enhancement Radius can take any value up 100 Similarly in Photoshop click Filter gt Blur gt Gaussian Blur The effect of Gaussian Blur is to smooth out the blotchy noise The main advantages of this method are its simple implementation and high calculation speed The disadvantages are the tendency to lose the images fine details and the sharpness decreases Advanced denoising techniques lt is hard to compare various advanced noise reduction techniques because they use different methods Also the result much depends on the image to be denoise
14. iew gt Customize e Choose Script tab e Select MagicDenoiser script select desirable icon from the thumbnails below e Press Bind button ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 18 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual Sj MagicDenoiser Ero j m 5 Seite Now you can place this button on any toolbar for Magic Denoiser quick launch NOTE Adobe Photoshop 7 CS CS2 CS3 CS4 have similar facilities for script creation and batch processing For details see Abode Photoshop help ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 19 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual FAQ and Troubleshooting can t find Magic Denoiser in my graphic host s Effects menu Check that the plug in is in the graphic host s Plug Ins folder or if necessary set the path to the plug in using graphic host s Preferences option To do this Click Preferences gt File locations gt Plug ins and the following screen appears Make sure the path is as shown Brushes Bump Maps Cache CMYK Profiles Deformation Maps Displacement Maps Environment Maps Gradients Masks Miner Pages Monitor Profiles Palettes Patterns Picture Frames Picture Tubes Plug ins Preset Shapes Presets can t run Magic Denoiser or Magic Denoiser is greyed out in graphic host s Effects menu Graphic hosts disable the plug in if the current image is not suitable for use with Magic Denoiser The image must be in RGB or Grayscale form
15. l scene Noise is present in all digital camera images to a greater or lesser extent but only becomes really evident on enlarging the image Look at the image below captured at sunset and at the fragment taken from the upper right corner It is not so obvious that noise is present But if we zoom in by a factor of 150 or higher see the zoomed fragment below noise looking like a graininess having nothing to do with the sky and clouds becomes strongly visible There are two main types of noise chrominance noise and luminance noise The former usually appears as small off coloured spots or specks in the image while the latter usually appears as small dark spots that often look like film grain Both types of noise degrade the image quality making the image unnatural Unfortunately noise is present in all physical processes In particular the physical process of recording an image on the CCD in a digital camera produces noise electronic noise Technical progress in CCD design can reduce the noise in an image but cannot remove it completely It is present in all images even if the images are captured with a top end professional camera Zoom sufficiently into any image as was done above and you will find some noise It is however interesting to note that noise is more noticeable in some images than ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 4 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual others Noise is more noticeable in uniform tonal areas
16. ll size test images made under different luminance conditions and different ISO settings You can make these experiments yourself or look at the relevant results at http www imaging resource com MFR1 HITM view where various digital cameras of different manufacturers were tested some examples below illustrate how ISO settings affect the appearance of noise Canon EOS 350D sky s fragments ISO 100 ISO 800 ISO 100 ISO 400 Canon Power Shot A630 color patches F number 4 Exposure time 1 125 EV 11 ISO 200 ISO 400 ISO 800 ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 6 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual Long exposure Long exposures usually 1 2 seconds or more may lead to the appearance of patterns of coloured dots slightly larger than a single pixel often referred to as stuck pixels or hot pixel noise But sometimes you can get noticeable noise increase even if your exposure speed is lower The example below illustrates such effects for the Olympus C740UZ capturing test image at ISO setting of 400 and nearly the same exposure value EV of 11 ISO 400 F number 4 Exposure time 1 125 EV 11 ISO 400 F number 8 Exposure time 1 30 EV 11 So to prevent the appearance of noise avoid long exposures Sensor temperature It is known that the higher the sensor temperature is the higher noise level it creates Fortunately normal digital camera usage does not generate excessive heating But nevert
17. o a computer where further manipulation takes place In general the manipulation of the image by the computer software gives better results than the software built into the camera Any stage of this complex process generates its own form of noise For the average photographer it is sufficient to know of the existence of noise and what can be done to alleviate the problem How do some digital camera characteristics and settings influence noise level Sensor geometrical size The problem is that lots of manufacturers and consumers are fixated on megapixels assuming that a camera with more megapixels must take better pictures than ones with fewer Unfortunately this is categorically not true Actually an important camera factor affecting the quality of the final image is the image sensor CCD size For small sensors as in point and shoot cameras the more megapixels a sensor has the smaller the individual pixel size and the more heat is generated and thus noise Under these constraints there is a tradeoff between spatial resolution and light sensitivity and optimal performance can be reached with much lower megapixels than you actually have If however you are a stickler for megapixels then keep in mind that a bigger sensor gives a less noisy or grainy image It is for this reason that full size DSLR cameras will always give the best resuls but noise never actually disappears ISO settings The camera s ISO settings describe the absolute light sensiti
18. ollow the manual you can easily adjust any of the interface parameters to get the result you want We have chosen a rather noisy image below to show how Magic Denoiser works Look at the original left and processed right images below and see the result We are sure that you can make it better Enjoy Magic Denoiser ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 13 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual Plug in Presets lf you wish to remove the noise from an image where there is no uniform area larger than the minimum size sample box currently 21x21 pixels you can experiment by sampling various parts of the image until you find a suitable sample The alternative is to use Presets which are noise samples taken from typical images over time such as bright sky dull sky portrait indoors etc To prepare a given plug in Preset select a noise pattern on the image that has uniform color distribution Then press the Save button and write the name of the preset and press OK button We strongly recommend that you use meaningful names for presets and include the noise pattern origin for example blue sky noise the ISO setting and the exposure time as well as any camera settings for the image noise reduction or sharpening The proper name allows you to apply that preset to other images created under the same conditions and avoid confusion trying to use a preset to process the images that were obtained under different conditions When a given Preset i
19. s loaded the stored noise profile is used for the noise reduction and the relevant noise sample is shown on the button Select noise pattern The obvious benefit of Presets is that they can be used to process images that contain nothing but texture i e those images where uniform areas higher than 21x21 pixels are absent completely ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 14 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual Working with Magic Denoiser All the following commands and image processing are valid for Corel Paint Shop Pro X Source data The plug in can process RGB and Grayscale images with 8 or 16 bits channel only with or without transparency If you have an image in another mode CMYK LAB etc Magic Denoiser will be disabled in Effect menu See FAQs for another reason why all the plug ins may be grayed out Starting Magic Denoiser Run your graphic host open an image Now you can run the Magic Denoiser plug in Click Effects gt Plugins gt Image Skill gt Magic Denoiser as below corel Paint Shop Pro X MG _8415 JPG File Edit View Image Adjust Jes Layers Objects selections window Help ok 5S io S H i Effect Browser Ge a Enhance Photo Palettes Zoom out LA Zoor Presets Zoom 96 Zoom out 2 30 Effects ue ECH Art Media Effects Artistic Effects ll Gh MG_8419 3PG 23 B ee Distortion Effects Edge Effects SE Fe Geometric Effects P Illumination Effects q Image
20. scellaneous mouse or other pointing device You must have suitable graphic host software see below Registering ImageSkill Magic Denoiser You can order the full version of this plug in via Sharelt and RegNow services both of them accept PayPal If you purchase Magic Denoiser through these services you receive a user name and an unlock key Please enter them carefully without additional blanks Use copy paste method to avoid errors If you have any trouble with your unlock key please send an email to sales imageskill com Registered users will receive our email newsletter containing information about new product releases and updates free downloads articles tips and special offers At the moment any upgrades to our products are given to registered customers free of charge Getting Technical Support If you have any troubles with installation questions feature requests or notes please contact us by one of the following ways E Mail support imageskill com Web site http forum imageskill com ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 3 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual Getting Started Denoising overview grain or ta electronic noise ta the input device scanner or digital camera sensor aud circuitry or iu the unavoidable shot naise of au ideal photon detector What is image noise lf a person is asked what noise is in a digital image one answer is that noise is something appearing in it that is absent in the rea
21. sky or other quasi uniform image area Never place a noise sample in exactly black or exactly white areas of the image to avoid noise underestimation Perhaps surprisingly Magic Denoiser is able to use noise estimation from only one selected noise pattern to make effective noise reduction throughout the image The Noise suppression control allows the user to vary the amount of noise suppression as necessary A zero setting corresponds to only the original image with no noise suppression while a setting of 100 shows a strongly denoised image We recommend using the default setting of 50 as a good starting point and increasing this into the range of 70 to 90 for strong noise suppression as in the example above The Original Processed control blends the denoised image with the original one It allows you to leave a certain amount of noise in the processed image preventing it from unpleasant over smoothness and making it more lifelike An Original Processed zero setting corresponds to only the original image while a setting of 100 shows solely the denoised image We recommend using the default setting of 70 as a good starting point for setting this control and increasing this as necessary C Impulse noise reduction control Remove impulse noise control allows the user to remove speckles like the salt and pepper filter as in Paint Shop Pro etc Moving the slider or editing the number in the edit box you can choose an appropriate size of speckles you
22. such as sky compared with highly textured areas It is important to say that striving for complete noise reduction in an image is not necessarily the best way to improve the visual impression Psychophysical experimental data show that by leaving reasonable amount of noise in an image can make it more lifelike and pleasant for viewing In fact removing too much noise often leaves the image looking quite plasticy Why the image appears noisy Not so very long ago all cameras used film of one form or another The properties of the different films were well Known and the amount of noise or graininess in the resultant photographs could be easily anticipated Generally the faster the film the grainier the photograph and conversely the slower the film the less graininess was apparent in the final result With digital cameras it is somewhat less certain how noise will degrade the final image using different camera settings Why should this be The problem is that the final digital image is the end product of a complex series of physical processes Essentially the light from an object is focussed by the lens onto the electronic detector the CCD or Charge Coupled Device The CCD consists of several megapixels The light falling onto each pixel is converted to an electrical signal which is then amplified The built in camera software then manipulates the amplified signal before it is stored on the memory card in the camera The image is then transferred t
23. t Shop Pro X IMG_1273 JPG Fie Edit Wiew Image Adjust Effects Layers Objects Selections Window He k D t H a GA w Ai ay re as 7 Enhance Phot Presets Zoom Zoom out fin Zoom more Actual size a PRRs AlS ama plugin F 1 E g ll Xx EJ cw PR IMG 1273 JPG 34 Background Save Script Recording Save script as MagicDenoiser PspScript for example Save ir Sa Scripts Restricted d t BoundScripti PspScript BoundScript7 PspScript pH BoundScript PspScript Bound Script PspScript ray BoundScripk3 PspScript lt 2 BoundScript9 PspScript gH BoundScript4 PspScript aJ BoundScript5 PspScript ct Bound Script PspScript File name MagicD enoiser PspS cript Dave as type Script Files Psp cript Lancel W Save Materials M Remove Undone Commands Description Save Dialog Positions Now you have the script that runs the Magic Denoiser plug in By default this script is saved in Script Restricted folder see more detail in PSP help You can now use this script for batch processing as many batches of images as you like You can also Customize your workspace by placing a button for this script in a toolbar Batch Processing Run Batch Process command File gt Batch Process ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 17 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual Batch Process D Photo Sern Photo MG 7234 jpg D Photo Sen Photo
24. using the default setting of 70 as a good starting point for this control Check Remove impulse noise flag if you want to clean up speckle noise as with a salt and pepper filter and choose an appropriate size of speckle Check Adjust fine details flag and click on the Sharpen or Soften radio buttons to sharpen or soften the image Scripting Actions feature Some graphic hosts support a scripting feature In Corel Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 9 X X1 X2 it is called scripts in Adobe PhotoShop 6 7 CS CS2 CS3 CS4 actions Using this option you can batch process a few images which means you can create a series of actions to be taken on each of the images in the batch You have to create the script action first Open an image Start script recording File gt Script gt Start Script Recording or button on script tool bar A Corel Paint Shop Pro X File Edit View Image Adjust Effects Layers Objects Selections Zoom out fin oo Oo Actual size Gi Loom more plugin j T T e Start Script Recording a Mux a Run Magic Denoiser plug in Effects gt Plugins gt Image Skill gt Magic Denoiser Adjust plug in parameters to achieve a desirable result Press OK button Save script recording File gt Script gt Save Recording or button on script tool bar ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 16 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual Corel Pain
25. vity of the camera s image sensor They usually have the values 50 100 200 or 400 but go as high as 800 1600 and even 3200 on some advanced models This is similar to the ISO rating of the old films The principle here is very simple the lower the ISO setting the slower the image sensor reaction will be to incoming light It means that a photo at ISO 100 will take half as long to reach the same level of exposure as one taken at 50 other camera settings being equal Naturally a lower ISO setting is used when capturing overly bright scenes since it reduces the light sensitivity of the image sensor and a higher ISO setting when shooting under dimmer conditions cloudy days indoors etc since it ImageSkill Software 2007 2009 5 ImageSkill Magic Denoiser User s Manual increases the light sensitivity of the image sensor However the user must remember that increasing the ISO setting of a digital camera processor amplifies the electrical signal and thus increases the noise level Unfortunately high sensitivity and noise are inseparable one always accompanies the other In most current consumer digital cameras noise becomes visible starting with ISO 200 and higher It means that you should avoid using high ISO settings if possible even if they might be set automatically in your camera But compromise is always possible when increased sensitivity can help you capture the scene To learn more about actual noise level of your camera look at fu
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