Digital BW, The Print

> I have a question on this, is anyone using gaussian blur to avoid 
> grain? Up to now this is the only solution I have for grain, 
although 
> it softens very slightly the image. Is there any other PS tool or 
> plugin for eliminating grain that works well? I'd like to hear 
about 

hi ... blurring the whole image deteriorates sharpness ... and we do not want that, do we ? :-) 

now and then i use neatimage (http://www.neatimage.com/index.html?c) for noise or grain reduction. careful though ... it is easy to end up "plastic fantastic"

cheers

veniamin kostitsin 

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