Digital BW, The Print

Neat image is a great tool... I bought the plug-in version and find 
that it often works well with digital noise, but have been 
disapointed in its ability at grain reduction...

I have had better luck just de-focusing my scanner and then carefully 
sharpeing... while this is just another filtering technique, it seems 
less tied to the theoretical blur using during unsharp masking and 
seems to give *me* better final results.

...that said, I think it is almost a hopeless task since you have to 
degrade your image so much to actually remove strong grain that you 
can't ever get back a sharp image... of course, if your grain is 
really tight, the image degradation is almost unnoticed... but than 
why bother...

...get the free version of NeatImage and see if it works for you.

and, umm... don't know what you are running, but they still don't 
have a Mac version:(

mark 

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> > Grain reduction
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> > I use NeatImage on most of my digital images that will be printed 
as large 
> > format. I find it does an invaluable job of reducing grain and 
noise, and is 
> > easily controllable to give you the effects that you want. I 
believe you can 
> > get a free trial version to test it out yourself.
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