Noise Ninja:

Photos, the way to capture holidays, parties, a night out with your friends and other things you may or may not want to remember. But they don’t always come out the way you hope, even with all the technology we have to make them the best we can, they can come up grainy or with a lot of noise. But now there is a way to clear up all those photos and scanned photos, so you can share them with all of your friends and family, and or on the net (like MySpace, FaceBook and other web sites) with everyone you don’t even know. Noise Ninja is the program for you.

Noise Ninja works by taking the color that’s surarounding the distorted parts in the picture, then blurs it together, making it one color, removing noise and grain from digital photographs and scanned photos. If the picture is very bad, it will still work but it will most likely make the picture like a very lifelike painting or it will give it a real good blur look. Noise Ninja is designed so you can quickly and easily get the results you want. It includes a rich set of tools, including automatic and manual noise analysis, camera specific profiles, an innovative "Noise Brush", and batch processing. Now even though it’s mad to be simple, it can take some time to learn how to use it, so you do have to know what you’re doing, but it is fun to play with it.

Now you can get Noise Ninja as a Plug-in for Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and compatible hosts, or it is available as a standalone application. Noise Ninja runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (Standalone version only).

Now like all things, here is the PRICE: The Home addiction goes for $34.95 U.S. where the Home plug-in, for Photoshop, will cost you $44.95 U.S. The Professional addiction goes for $69.95 U.S. and the Professional plug-in goes for $79.95 U.S. If you don’t want to run out and buy it without trying, you can download the 30 day free trial.

In my opinion, if you love your photos, this program can come in handy, it is very useful, and a great tool to have. For more info, and on where to perches it from, go to PictureCode.com.