Trevin Chow

I’m a huge fan of the Noise Ninja plugin for Photoshop, and have had some amazing experiences in the past dealing with noisy images when using high ISOs.

However, since getting my Nikon D700 back in November, I haven’t used it as much since I wasn’t getting consistently good results due to the lack of profiles specifically for the D700. I finally got around to creating my own and figured it might help other people searching for the same thing, but didn’t want to go through the trouble of creating their own.

I profiled my D700 at every ISO increment starting at ISO 100 all the way to ISO 256000 (21 profiles in total). My camera was set in all neutral settings (Sharpness, Contrast and Saturation are all set to Medium in camera).

You can download them from a folder I made public on my Windows Live Skydrive: NikonD700-NoiseNinja-Profiles.zip

To install them, use these instructions:

1. Download the D700 noise profile using the link above.
2. Unzip it into a folder of your choice — it should give you 21 profiles with .nzp extensions.  (Note: Do not put it in the NoiseNinja program folder. Noise Ninja will copy them to the correct location in the next step).
3. Start Noise Ninja and select “Install profiles…” from the Profiles menu if you are using the Photoshop plug-in (if you are using the Noise Ninja standalone version, it’s located in the “File” menu).
4. Next, select the folder you selected in step #2 and press “OK”.  Noise Ninja will scan the folder and any sub-folders looking for valid profiles, and will copy them to the correct location in the NoiseProfiles folder in the Noise Ninja installation directory.

   Note: If you are on Vista or Windows 7, and getting an error about permissions in the C:\Program Files\ folder when importing Noise Ninja profiles in Step #4, you need to change the location Noise Ninja uses to store profiles.  I moved mine to My Documents folder which can be configured in Preferences:

   

5. If you are using the Photoshop plug-in, you’ll need to setup Noise Ninja to auto-load the profiles.  First, go to the Noise Ninja menu and select Preferences. Set the Profile policy to “Auto-load profile based on EXIF” and set the Fallback policy to “Invoke automatic profiler” then click OK.

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