Digital BW, The Print

don't know that it is off-group, but it is of course the real answer!

mark

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Jan Becket" 
<jbecket@l...> wrote:
> Hope this isn't off-group, but here's another way to deal with the 
problem: go to a 
> larger format film and use something like T-Max 100 or even Tech 
Pan.  I found 
> developing T-Max in Pyro works great for scanning negs that may 
also need to be 
> printed in the old wet way.  There is a huge grain difference 
between my 4X5 neg 
> scans and the 6X9 ones I took on a trip this summer, and there is 
no way to make the 
> 6X9 ones look like the 4X5 ones, unfortunately.
> 
> Jan B.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- 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.