Rescue Job Revisited
During the 2008-09 pre-season I uploaded a "rescue" job of a photo which was seriously underexposed.
Andy Jones is on the ball during Enfield Town's 0-0 draw at Bedfont.
Here is a new version from the same original cleaned up and noise-filtered using Neat Image. I used the Windows version run under WINE as I am a Linux user.
It isn't FOSS, but I can live with that. Also, it strips the EXIF data out of the photo but I can live with that as well seeing as I am not a professional photographer.
Once I had run the photo through Neat Image I then cropped and resized it, brightened it a bit and gave it a bit of sharpening in GIMP. I didn't have to use the "Eg Recover Shadows" plugin in GIMP, though.
Techie update: I figured out how to save the EXIF data.
1. Use Neat Image to remove the noise and save the image.
2. Then open it and the original in your photo processing software.
3. Copy the filtered version to the clipboard and paste it in to the original one as a new layer.
The background layer retains the EXIF data and the filtered layer, being 100% opaque, hides the noisy photo.
NB: I haven't done that with this photo though because I had already uploaded it before I figured that out.
Rescue Job Revisited
During the 2008-09 pre-season I uploaded a "rescue" job of a photo which was seriously underexposed.
Andy Jones is on the ball during Enfield Town's 0-0 draw at Bedfont.
Here is a new version from the same original cleaned up and noise-filtered using Neat Image. I used the Windows version run under WINE as I am a Linux user.
It isn't FOSS, but I can live with that. Also, it strips the EXIF data out of the photo but I can live with that as well seeing as I am not a professional photographer.
Once I had run the photo through Neat Image I then cropped and resized it, brightened it a bit and gave it a bit of sharpening in GIMP. I didn't have to use the "Eg Recover Shadows" plugin in GIMP, though.
Techie update: I figured out how to save the EXIF data.
1. Use Neat Image to remove the noise and save the image.
2. Then open it and the original in your photo processing software.
3. Copy the filtered version to the clipboard and paste it in to the original one as a new layer.
The background layer retains the EXIF data and the filtered layer, being 100% opaque, hides the noisy photo.
NB: I haven't done that with this photo though because I had already uploaded it before I figured that out.