4.7. Symmetric Nearest Neighbor
| 4. Enhance Filters |

### 4.7. Symmetric Nearest Neighbor

#### 4.7.1. Overview

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

You can find this filter through Filters → Enhance → Symmetric Nearest Neighbor….

#### 4.7.3. Options

Figure 17.43. “Symmetric Nearest neighbor” filter options

Presets, “Input Type”, Clipping, Blending Options, Preview, Split view

  | Note
  These options are described in Section 2, “Common Features”.

Radius

  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. Example

Left: original..............Right: filter applied

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