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The advanced Noise Ninja Registered tool provides controls to reduce the digital noise in the image while preserving sharpness and detail. To use the these controls, you must be a registered user of Noise Ninja™.

For more information about Noise Ninja, see the Understanding Advanced Image Editing Tools topic. Also, consult your Noise Ninja Plug-In User Guide published by PictureCode.

Bibble Pro Only Advanced Noise Ninja Tools are only available in Bibble Pro

To set the crop and rotation options:

1. | From the Tools menu, click Basic.

2. | In the drop-down menu, click Noise Ninja Registered.

3. | Click Enable Noise Ninja to activate the Noise Ninja controls.

4. | Click Coarse Noise if you want to enable Noise Ninja's coarse noise filter to remove low-frequency noise in the Chroma channel.

5. | Click Auto Profile if you want to generate a noise profile for the image. (Note: The auto generated profile is not saved automatically.)

6. | Click Turbo Mode to enable faster processing of noise reduction settings.

Note: To achieve faster processing in turbo mode, there is a slight decrease in noise reduction quality. If your image contains strong diagonal lines, you might notice an aliasing effect in turbo mode.

1. | To adjust the Luma (grayscale/brightness) settings:

o | Click the Luma tab.

o | Drag the Strength slider to increase or decrease the overall strength of the Luma channel in the noise reduction process.

o | Drag the Contrast slider to increase or decrease the contrast in the Luma channel.

o | Drag the Smoothness slider to increase or decrease the noise levels estimated by the noise profile in the Luma channel.

1. | To adjust the Chroma (color hue and saturation) settings:

o | Click the Chroma tab.

o | Drag the Strength slider to the right to increase or decrease the overall strength of the Chroma channel in the noise reduction process.

o | Drag the Contrast slider to increase or decrease the contrast in the Chroma channel.

o | Drag the Smoothness slider to increase or decrease the noise levels estimated by the noise profile. Increasing smoothness isolated specs in even-colored areas within the Chroma channel.

1. | To adjust the USM (unsharp mask) settings:

o | Click the USM tab.

o | Click the Amount slider and drag the slider to increase or decrease the overall sharpness of the image and the contrast between neighboring pixels.

o | Click the Radius slider and drag the slider to the right to increase the pixel radius. Drag the slider to the left to decrease the pixel radius.

1. | To use a custom profile or generate a noise profile:

o | Click the Profile tab.

o | To load a custom noise profile, click the ... (Browse) button.

o | Browse to the noise profile file, select it, and click Open.

Note: Noise profiles from the PictureCode web site are not compatible with Bibble.

o | If you want to generate a noise profile using noise information from the current image, click Generate Profile. You will be prompted to name and save the profile to your file system.

Related Topics

Understanding Basic Image Editing Tools

Understanding Advanced Image Editing Tools