Neat Image user guide / Device noise profiles / Preparing a profile set for different device modes

Stage IV. Documenting profile set

Along with the text comments inside the device noise profiles and their file names, we advise to document a profile set with a plain text file explaining the following points:

Author of the profile set, profiling date
Device name, firmware version
Device modes that have been profiled in this set
- Device mode parameters that change within the profile set
- Device mode parameters that are constant for all profiles in the set
Post-processing applied (after receiving image from imaging device and before Neat Image)

An example of such a description is below:

Olympus C5050Z noise profiles

by John Smith, April 10, 2005

A set of profiles for Olympus C5050Z TIFF and JPEG files. The profiles were built using shots of the Calibration Target for the following file formats and image sizes:

TIFF: 2048x1536 / 2288x1712 / 2560x1696 / 2560x1920
JPEG HQ / SHQ: 2560x1696 / 2560x1920

For each file format and image size above, shots with different ISO rates (100, 200 and 400) were made and used to build profiles.

Default camera settings were used for Sharpness, Contrast, and Saturation. In-camera noise reduction was switched off. The white balance was set to daylight.

No post processing was applied; the calibration target shots directly from the camera were opened in Neat Image to build profiles.

Such kind of summary would help you figure out any set of profiles you prepared as well as let other people understand your results if you decided to share your profiles.

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