Neat Image is a digital filter designed to reduce visible noise in digital photographic images. With this program you can easily make your digital images noise free (grain free). It works with images from any digital camera or scanner and gives you the complete control over noise filter settings.

Neat Image incorporates the most advanced noise reduction algorithms in the industry. It uses device noise profiles to make noise reduction custom-tailored to your imaging device. Depending on the edition, Neat Image works as a standalone application and/or a Photoshop plug-in. The plug-in works with Photoshop CS/7/6/5, Photoshop Elements 2/3, Paint Shop Pro 7/8/9, PhotoImpact 8/10/XL, Photopaint, Photoline, and Microsoft Digital Image Pro.

Download Neat Image 5.9 in Softonic

We've gotten used to the perfection of digital photography, but there was a time when photos had dust, scratches, stains and other imperfections that could easily ruin them.

Luckily you can now fix those imperfections with Retouch Pilot Lite, a really simple photo retouching tool that doesn't require any designing or editing skills and can therefore be used by anybody. This Lite version doesn't include the Smart Patch tool available in the trial, but other than that it's a perfectly working tool with which you can easily restore old photos.

That said, bear in mind that Retouch Pilot Lite works best with small flaws such as light scratches, spots and the likes. The more serious the defect is, the harder it'll be to fix it without leaving any trace. Also, I missed having a color picker when using the concealer; it was hard to choose the exact color to paint over certain artifacts in the photo to make them disappear.

Generally speaking, I found Retouch Pilot Lite to be a great retouching tool for newbies, and especially useful to remove small flaws from pictures without having to learn how to use Photoshop or any other mammoth-sized editor.

Retouch Pilot Lite is the perfect tool for a quick photo retouch to fix small spots. More serious imperfections definitely need more editing skills and a more professional tool as well.

Download Retouch Pilot Lite 3.0.2 in Softonic

If you need to increase the size of a picture and you don't want it to appear pixelized, you may want to use a specific program to resize photos.

These programs try to calculate how an image would look like if it were bigger, by adding an extra pixel between two of them. Reshade mainly fades the picture in order for you not to see the single pixels after zooming. It doesn't really maintain the graphic quality, it just creates a smooth effect which lowers the image definition. Although this can be acceptable for reduced zoom needs, it will not look good with greater zoom.

There are some options you can modify like quality, that doesn't change much though, smoothness, texture, accuracy and threshold which instead make an immediate visual difference.

Reshade allows you to increase the size of you photos without having to suffer much from the pixel side effect of the zoom. Although it doesn't maintain quality it will be good enough for minimal enlargements.

Download Reshade 1.41 in Softonic

Digital cameras enable us to take better and better images but there are still some occasions when your shots need a bit retouching to reach perfection.

That's the case of noise or grain, a problem that can affect your photos when shooting them in poorly lighted environments. Luckily you can now remove those artifacts in a very easy way with Noiseware Community Edition, a photo retouching and editing tool that enables you to remove noise, grain and other imperfections from your pictures in just one click.

The program includes 10 noise filtering presets and allows you to tweak them but in a limited way, as some of the sliders are only available in a Pro version. After optimizing the image you can compare it to the original one by simply clicking on the photo. If you like it, go ahead and save it.

The program is a doddle to use, but the whole process gets a bit lengthy if you need to optimize many pictures, because you can't work in batches. Also, as another limitation of this version, you can't save pictures with a JPEG quality level higher than 90.

Noiseware Community Edition is a good tool to remove grain and noise from your pictures, as long as you don't have many of them to work on.

Download NoiseWare Community Edition 2.6 in Softonic

Cleanerzoomer gives you the tools needed to whip dodgy photos into shape. It lets you professionally clean out photo (low ISO) noise, hot pixels, JPEG blocks and ringing, moiree and other similar artifacts and enlarge images, while keeping objects' edges looking sharp and natural.

The additional Auto-balance function automatically adjusts colour balance, levels and gamma. The program is designed to be simple enough to be used by complete beginners, using the built-in presets, and has enough sliders to satisfy demands of even the most advanced professional user.

Download Cleanerzoomer 3.7 in Softonic

Noise Ninja is the most effective and productive solution for removing noise and grain from digital photographs and scanned film images. It is a must-have tool for anyone shooting in low-light or fast-action situations -- including news, sports, wedding, and event coverage -- where high ISO photography is required and the resulting noise compromises the image.

Noise Ninja often yields a two-stop improvement in effective image quality, while preserving important image detail. In addition, it can produce cleaner, smoother enlargements from low-ISO images.

Download Noise Ninja 2.1.1 in Softonic

MakeUp Pilot is a portrait software that allows to apply makeup directly onto your photos. It helps you to quickly and easily remove small defects on your skin. With this makeup software you'll be able to make your pictures look even better than they do!

Download MakeUp Pilot 2.00 in Softonic

Clarific has doubled the resolution of the image as well as removed most of the noise, which allows you to make larger prints with the same photos. It is unique in its ability to deal with especially noisy images. See the noise removal gallery and magnification gallery for more examples.

Download Clarific 1.4 in Softonic

PhotoAcute Studio is an application primarily developed for processing sets of digital photographs taken in "continuous mode" to produce high-resolution, low-noise pictures and improve the quality of the photographs in several other aspects. You can get an amazing image quality improvement without changing your camera.

Unlike the most of digital photography software, PhotoAcute deals with the limits of cameras, not the limits of the photographer.

By applying state-of-art super-resolution algorithms, tuned to particular camera, PhotoAcute Studio produces up to 4 times larger photographs. That is not the digital zoom - the photographs really have more pixels, thus giving you more details. Small, thin and far away objects, traceries, textures and inscriptions become recognizable.

Download PhotoAcute Studio 1.0 in Softonic