I assume you're talking about Imaginomic's Noiseware, and not just the NR that Portraiture does? Man, I have to disagree. 'We are building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude. No less than 2 GB (but remember XP stops caching RAM at 2GB so you don't really want to go overboard) a dual core processor or a beefy single core. I would recommend a beefy system to use this with Photoshop CS3. So maybe, even professionally you can come up with a reasonable result. All these presets are customizable as well. There are presets for Low, Med, High smoothing, 'glamour', hi/lo key. It does leave the skin tone a bit soft, but you can change parameters to vary this effect. But then again, if you are making money, the results may not be to your liking or worse the client's liking. $169.00 it is still a bit on the expensive side, but if you are making money with your photos, then it maybe well worth it. I can not justify the $265 for the package though, however, I would recommend buying the portraiture plugin per se. Moles are darker so it doesn't 'see' it for the most part.

I think it goes by the range of colors based on skin tones and evens it out. It will not over do the skin smoothing, I notice that albeit it lightens moles, it will not remove it but it will remove pimples. I still had to use either Lightroom or Lightzone to 'fix' the hue and sat a bit, but for the most part it does a great job. If you like or can get what you like from the results as I did, it will save you hours of airbrushing and sharpening, etc. Portraiture - This is where the rubber meets the pavement. Grain - has a few templates of different types of film (how quaint j/k remember those) it gets close to accurately mimicking the grain from film stocks such as AGFA, Fujitsu, Kodak, etc. since it does not remove noise based on your camera's profile matrix at certain ISO's.

Noise Reduction - Works great, not as good as Noise Ninja however. Noise reduction, Grain and the best part is the portraiture plugin. That's a lot of bread for a 8mb download which does 3 things.

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