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Re: Grain reduction

2004-01-24 by bwinkjet

Hi,

Copy the  background layer, magic wand the sky, contract it 1-2 
pixels and run Blur-degauss at about 3 and see if that works.  If 
you need less, then reduce the opacity in layers.  Hope this helps.

Paul                                                                 
   --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "marcsien77" 
<marcsien77@y...> wrote:
> I would greatly appreciate advice on a PS technique to reduce 
grain 
> from an almost uniform overcast sky area of a BW image.  The rest 
of 
> the image is fine so I was thinking of doing something with a 
layer 
> mask but so far I had no luck.  Many thanks in advance, Marc.

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