Noise Ninja: Home or Pro?

I'm trying to decide which version of noise ninja to purchase, home or pro. It looks to me like batch processing is the main advantage of pro. Is this really something you would do in batches, or is it more an image by image thing? Since I haven't had experience with the program, I'm having trouble figuring out if batch processing would be worth the extra $.

Thanks,

Julie

JulieB said:

I'm trying to decide which version of noise ninja to purchase, home
or pro. It looks to me like batch processing is the main advantage
of pro. Is this really something you would do in batches, or is it
more an image by image thing? Since I haven't had experience with
the program, I'm having trouble figuring out if batch processing
would be worth the extra $.

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I recently bought the home version to use with a PowerShot Pro 1. Then as I'm reading more advanced stuff I've seen some good reasons to use 16-bit mode in PS. (Basically more bits left after throwing some out). So now I'm think of maybe going for the Pro NN just for the 16 bit capability.

Get the home version and 'get your feet wet' with it and then you can upgrade later for the batch/16 bits.
=Alan R.

If I'm going to convert to jpeg, does it really matter if I use 8 or 16 bit? That's probably a really dumb question, but I'll ask it anyway! Generally, I shoot RAW, then convert to jpeg.

alanvee said:

JulieB said:

I'm trying to decide which version of noise ninja to purchase, home
or pro. It looks to me like batch processing is the main advantage
of pro. Is this really something you would do in batches, or is it
more an image by image thing? Since I haven't had experience with
the program, I'm having trouble figuring out if batch processing
would be worth the extra $.

Click to expand...

I recently bought the home version to use with a PowerShot Pro 1.
Then as I'm reading more advanced stuff I've seen some good reasons
to use 16-bit mode in PS. (Basically more bits left after throwing
some out). So now I'm think of maybe going for the Pro NN just for
the 16 bit capability.
Get the home version and 'get your feet wet' with it and then you
can upgrade later for the batch/16 bits.
=Alan R.

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16 bit and batch capability.

And even if the final form is 8 bit jpg (each to their own, I only go there for plugins which do not support 16 bit and to give to others) its best to stay in 16 bit as long as possible. Main reason is why throw away half the data until you have to. So flow should be something like this - adjust curves/levels/shadow-highlight (PS CS), make other exposure related adjustments, Noise Ninja, resize (not certain if resize and then Noise Ninja work better or not, can't tell) and only then conver to 8 bit for output/distribution and 8 bit plugin processing.

As an aside I have found that Noise Ninja work better in 16 bit - cleans up noise more efficently.

JulieB said:

alanvee said:

JulieB said:

I'm trying to decide which version of noise ninja to purchase, home
or pro. It looks to me like batch processing is the main advantage
of pro. Is this really something you would do in batches, or is it
more an image by image thing? Since I haven't had experience with
the program, I'm having trouble figuring out if batch processing
would be worth the extra $.

Click to expand...

I recently bought the home version to use with a PowerShot Pro 1.
Then as I'm reading more advanced stuff I've seen some good reasons
to use 16-bit mode in PS. (Basically more bits left after throwing
some out). So now I'm think of maybe going for the Pro NN just for
the 16 bit capability.
Get the home version and 'get your feet wet' with it and then you
can upgrade later for the batch/16 bits.
=Alan R.

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