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AbsoluteDeNoiser (Java)
[Standalone] "AbsoluteDeNoiser is an easy to use software that produces very competitive noise reduction filtering for digital images. It is a Java software that should run on almost every machine: Windows 98/2000/XP, Mac OS X, Unix, Linux."

Dfine (Win/Mac)
[Plugin] Reduce noise while balancing image details, color, and light.

Digital GEM (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] "Automatically reduces and manages noise and grain in digital images from any source without causing excessive softening or blurring. The Digital GEM plug-in allows users to isolate noise/grain in both highlight and shadow areas and provides a 'clarity' slider to either sharpen or soften the overall result." $79.95 US.

Grain Surgery (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] This noise manupilation tool helps you remove grain, add grain, and match grain in digital photos. $159 US. A demo is available for Mac or Windows Photoshop 5.5 or higher and Photoshop Elements.

Imagenomic Noiseware (Win)
Photo noise reduction for digital cameras. "Noiseware leads the field for speed, quality and ease-of-use in restoring image fidelity by eliminating digital noise and unwanted artifacts introduced by high ISO photography and less than optimal environmental conditions." Free, Standard, Plug-in, and Pro versions are available.

ISOx Noise Reducer Plugin (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] "This professional tool offers an easy and efficient solution to quickly and affordably reduce noise from all digital camera files or scanned film. It uses noise reduction technology specific designed to accommodate RAW or JPEG straight from the camera."

Jpeg Enhancer (Win)
[Standalone] Recover images damaged by low-quality JPEG compression. Remove "JPEG artifacts" and "blotchy look" from over-compressed JPEG images. Freeware

Neat Image (Win/Linux/Unix)
[Standalone] "Neat Image is a digital filter designed to reduce visible noise in digital photographic images. Neat Image detects the noise, analyzes and removes it... works in all versions of Windows, under Wine in Linux and other i386 flavors of Unix, in a PC emulator on Mac (a native version is under development)." Available in a home edition and professional edition.

NoiseFixer (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] Remove 'noise' or 'graininess' from images. US$27.

PhotoRefiner (Win)
"This utility is intended to reduce noise in your digital photographs... It carries out the analysis of the image, finds regions with noise and reduces it... Besides noise, the PhotoRefiner can reduce the artifacts of the strong jpeg-compression."

PictureCode Noise Ninja (Win)
[Standalone] "Quickly remove high-ISO noise, scanner noise, and grain from digital images." Home version - US$29, Pro Version US$69.

Quantum Mechanic (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] Quantum Mechanic Pro and Quantum Mechanic Lite are Adobe Photoshop filter plug-ins that reduce digital camera noise and artifacts in photographs taken by many professional digital cameras.

SmarterNR (Win)
[Plug-in] "SmarterNR is a Photoshop and Paintshop Pro filter that removes noise and grain from images." Shareware - US$20.

Rondayview: Da Funk and Da Noise
A detailed discussion of digital noise including a Photoshop action set for noise reduction.

Noise Reduction Tool Comparison
Michael Almond has compared several noise reduction tools to find the best one. You can see samples of the results for (currently) 18 different products.