Digital BW, The Print

>>So the grain was part of the photo from the start -
>>it's been there, done that, paid its dues, it has a
>>raison d'etre, it's a founding father.
>>
>>The point is that the dots are merely an artifact of the
>>algorithm used by the driver - they have no organic connection
>>to the original photo. they're interlopers, party crashers,
>>- THAT'S why they stand out.   Your eye tells you that somehow,
>>they don't belong there; they have no intrinsic relationship
>>to the original photo.
>>
>>At least that's my theory about why I find dots more annoying
>>than grain.

Very interesting indeed. Makes me wonder if one could  minimize some of the
problems as follows:

1) In Photoshop, create a new layer.
2) Add noise to taste (if tasteful)
3) Use displacement mapping based on the greyscale values of the original
image to shift the noise pixels.
4) Flatten and print in BO. (I hate that abbrev too, but I hate typing more)

I'll play with it later. The point is that this would give some
image-related "logic" to the noise dots, perhaps reestablishing what "the
eye tells." Thanks for the idea.

Bobbo

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