NDNoise

Overview

NDNoise is a Java-based freeware that enables to remove noise in digital images.

Features in version V0.4:

Latest improvements:

Planed features for future version :

Need a point of view ? See They speak about NDNoise (Q&A)

History : NDNoise is a completely new write of AbsoluteDeNoiser from scratch

Screen shots

Windows XP (Before)
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Windows XP (After, keeping a little noise to avoid the "plastic" effect on too clean surfaces)
ScreenShot

Mac Os X (Before)
Os X

Mac Os X (After, keeping a little noise to avoid the "plastic" effect on too clean surfaces)
Os X

License

NDNoise is free to use for private and not commercial purposes. For any other purposes, thanks to contact me directly (see readme.txt file for addresses infos).

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Anthony for his wondeful NeuQuant algorithm !

Thanks to Rodrigo for his nice JSmooth wrapper.

Thanks to authors of the free tools I love : Matthieu for phpMyVisites, Yannick for the Aztek Forum, Fabien for FileZilla,

... and of course the incredible wellknown tools : Gimp, Eclipse, Mozilla, ...

My freeware wouldn't have been without all of them !!

Make an encouraging donation

If you like this freeware, become a free software militant : make a small encouraging donation (10 Euros would be nice, more would be wonderful) !

Installation

Windows


Mac Os X


All machines (Windows, Mac Os X, Linux, Unix, ...)

If you are comfortable with the use of a Java machine

java -Xmx256M -jar NDNoise.jar

Typical launchers are available : runWindows.bat, runUnixLinuxOsX.sh

How to use

Using NDNoise is very easy and intuitive :

  1. launch NDNoise
  2. it will prompt you to choose an image, select a file
  3. the image is then displayed
  4. change the Noise filtering slider (up for more filtering, and down for less filtering) and press [Calc] button to get a new evaluation of the filtering
  5. change the Dots/Spots filtering slider (up for more filtering, and down for less filtering) and press [Calc] button to get a new evaluation of the filtering
  6. change the Retexturing filtering slider to avoid plastic effect because of a too strong filtering (up for more texture, and down for less texture) and press [Calc] button to get a new evaluation of the filtering
  7. you can zoom in/out to appreciate the result, choose the image you want to see (original / filtered) or alternative viewing
  8. when you are ready with all images, press [Save] button !

Stay informed of new versions

To stay informed of new version, you can register to the alert services of VersionTracker : Win, Mac

Forum

You can discuss, ask, read about NDNoise on the dedicated forum [Forum].

Hope you will enjoy....



Etienne