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I like to avoid flash with faces as much as I can so I tend to use high ISO fairly often with fast lenses.
One particular raw file I was having trouble with in PE5 so I added Neat Image as a plug in several months ago and to my amazement the image began to look like a 100 ISO image.
Last night I decided to see if I could replicate it in LightRoom. I worked on it for hours and could not do so using the same monitor and printer I used to create it in PE5 plus NI.
I even tried editing the image through LR to PE5 as a .tif and back again using NI while in PE5. Awful!
LR is 16 bit minimum and PE5 only works with 8 bit....is this the problem in all probability with this situation, and would CS3+LR give me a one stop solution once and for all? I don't do anything with pictures other than take them, "develop them", store them, and occasionally print one for a family member. Most of the CS products I'd never use and I've avoided putting out that much cash for items I'd rarely or never use, but the noise remover in LR is glaringly weak it appears.
As bizarre as this seems I'm finding that in some cases I'd be better off to develop in PE5 with some plug-ins and catalog with LR. I can't believe I'm typing that, but several files seem to dictate that to me.
Any comments would be appreciated, especially if it comes from developers who hint that noise problem enhancements are on the way.

".just open LR to the same popular plug ins that Adobe has allowed in other products and it would be fine"
Yeah, well, that's a bit of a problem, don't ya know. Lightroom is a "parametric image editor", meaning it doesn't edit "pixels" only parameters that WILL be applied upon export or printing. So, Photoshop "plug-in filters" simply can't be incorporated-not in the manner people seem to understand plug-ins. There aren't any "pixels" in Lightroom to operate on-just parameters...
This is an entirely new approach to image editing-well, kinda...there was an old application called Live Picture that worked in a slightly similar manner and while LP eventually got "plug-ins" to work, it required rendering, plug-in application and re-editing back in LP. Which kinda defeated the purpose.
When Lightroom gets an SDK (coming eventually) there will be an ability for third parties to write "modules" to do things in Lightroom. But that's gonna take some time. In the meantime, if ya just gotta use a 3rd party plug-in, then there's really no option besides the pixel edit in Photoshop (or Elements).

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