Digital BW, The Print

Barbara,

Try giung in the opposite direction, i.e., get rid of the blotchy 
noise, while retaining the large grain of IR.  A realy cool tool is 
NeatImage.  It is a stand alone program.

Good luck.

Shilesh

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Barbara White 
<barbara@b...> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a filter for photoshop that will simulate film 
> grain and let you pick the size of the grain-balls? I have a bunch 
of 
> b&W infrared negs that have a dark blotchyness in the clear skies 
and 
> need to somehow get rid of it. (Too much blotchyness for cloning) 
I've 
> tried selecting, using gaussian blur and then gaussian noise, which 
> works pretty well, but it's only one size. And you can see the 
> difference next to the larger size. And the grain on these negs is 
> pretty large. I also tried the Film Grain filter under Artistic 
Filters 
> and it doesn't seem to give you a choice of size of grain, either. 
> Maybe there's a third party one out there I don't know about.
> 
> I think it happened from the development, somehow, not in the 
scans, 
> because I can see it in the contact sheets. These negs are from 
> Cambodia, and I'm not going back there any time soon, so I'm 
desperate 
> to find a solution. ANY suggestions will be gratefully accepted!! 
> Thanks.
> 
> Barbara White
> http://www.barbarawhitephoto.com