Digital BW, The Print

If you want scratches on the negative, take an unexposed, 
processed piece of film and scratch it the way you want.  Scan it 
and add it to your image as a layer that you can blend however 
you want.

Frank

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., DC <davidcorwin@a...> 
wrote:
> on 9/7/02 10:03 AM PST, lyonscox wrote:
> 
> > Was working on an image last night that it would be nice to 
give it a
> > lot of scratches on the negative look...PS's "Dust&Scatches" 
is not
> > the effect I'm looking for...more the film run through projector 
with
> > sand in it. 
> 
> You could experiment with using noise or film grain filters, then 
running a
> motion blur on them.  That can get you a scratched looked, but 
I don't know
> if that's exactly what you're looking for.  Also, you could ask on 
the
> Photoshop Discussion List <photoshop@s...>
> 
> David