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Delivering a Karate Chop to Digital Noise

Every now and then a new product comes along that redefines expectations. In software-based noise reduction such a product isNoise NinjafromPicturecode. Last yet it wasPhotokit Sharpener Pro, which revolutionized image sharpening, and now it's the whimsically namedNoise Ninja.
I tested this program and began using it shortly after in first came out in 2003, and though it became a standard tool which I use daily and also teach in my workshops and seminars, I somehow neglected to write a review. It slipped though the cracks, likely because it had simply become a basic tool that I use almost every day, and I therefore took it for granted.
I was reminded of my oversight when I ran intoJim Christian, the program's author and publisher, at PMA in Las Vegas in February of 2004. We chatted for a while about the program and where he was going with it, and I promised that my review would appear soon. We'll it's been about a month since that promise, s...

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