What's Noiseware?

A couple of you have asked: What's Noiseware? Noiseware removes the "noise" or the "grain" that appears in your photo in dim light settings.

I've gathered a couple of examples for you:

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Here's a great example for how your ISO can affect your photo (from the Mom and Camera blog):

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I'm still VERY much learning about photography... but, I always adjust my ISO last. My camera doesn't handle higher ISO's too well. It also doesn't help that my house is pretty dark with all this Pacific NW weather.... :D

There are ways to adjust any noise in Photoshop... but, I haven't explored that yet. For now I use NoiseWare Community Edition. It's free and simple to use. It comes with 10 free filters. The downside of the free version is you can only work on one photo at a time, it reduces the size of your photo and clears out your EXIF data. But, it's great if you don't have photoshop or just can't figure out how to get rid of noise. :)

Here's a great tutorial I found to reduce noise in Photoshop.

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By the way:

Random.org chose the winner for the Pamela Topping giveaway! The winner is...........

Jeska from Living Our Love Song. Yay! Congrats! I'll email you with the details.