On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 10:12:37 +1300, Joseph Heled <pepster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > BTW, all this was part of a small evaluation of CCD noise removal method. If you > are interested, the details are in > http://pages.quicksilver.net.nz/pepe/d70/Nikon_D70_on_Linux.html#ISONoise > > The results are quite dismaying. I appreciate any insight on the subject. > However please note I am not looking for a solution for the specific image I > used, but a generic one. I think you are running with an old version of the gimp, the artifacts from the median filtering done in the Despeckle plugin doesn't look good at all in your image,. somehow it seems like the result I achieve in http://pippin.gimp.org/tmp/despeckle_adaptive_non_recursive_radius_1_black_level_0_white_level_256.png.html might be similar to what you want (note that I have run it on the jpeg version of your original.) running with a radius of 1. /pippin -- Software patents hinder progress | http://swpat.ffii.org/ Web : http://pippin.gimp.org/