It's particularly useful for those who shoot in low-light or fast-action footage such as news, sports and general event coverage where high ISO photography is used. The problem with such ISO photography is the resulting noise which Noise Ninja can significantly help in reducing.

Of course, Noise Ninja requires Photoshop and editing with Noise Ninja is what is known as "destructive" editing which means that it's not as kind on images as using Photoshop directly but most users report the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

Noise Ninja is an excellent Photoshop plugin for all those that need to remove noise from high ISO images.

Download Noise Ninja Photoshop plugin 2.4.2 in Softonic

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 2.6.0.1 (XP) in Softonic

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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 3.0.4 in Softonic

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