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If you've taken a photo in low light (in a dark restaurant, say), or if you set your camera to a high ISO (a setting that increases the camera's sensitivity to light), chances are you've got a ton of noise—grainy-looking speckles—in your image. While you'll find a couple of noise-reducing tricks in Chapter 11, if the image is really important, you should spring for a noise-reducing plug-in instead.
This plug-in has quickly become the noise reducer of choice for professional photographers. Instead of blurring the whole image to make the noise less visible, Noiseware analyzes the image and reduces noise only in the parts of the image that really need it. You also get a handy before-and-after view so you can see what it did. It's available from www.imagenomic.com and costs around $50.