4.7. Symmetric Nearest Neighbor

4.7.1. Pregled

This filter blurs the image preserving edges. It is very effective in noise reduction maintaining sharp edges.

It works comparing each pixel to its neighboring pixels and to 1 or 2 pairs of symmetric pixels around the center.

4 symmetric pairs

4.7.2. Activating the Filter

This filter is found in the main menu under FiltersEnhanceSymmetric Nearest Neighbor….

4.7.3. Možnosti

Slika 17.42. Symmetric Nearest neighbor filter options

“Symmetric Nearest neighbor” filter options

Presets, Input Type, Clipping, Blending Options, Preview, Split view
[Opomba] Opomba

These options are described in Razdelek 2, “Common Features”.

Radij

Radius, in pixels, of square pixel region. Width and height of this region are radius*2+1:

Pairs

You can select 1 or 2 pairs: higher number preserves more acute features.

4.7.4. Primer

Left: original. Right: filter applied.