Digital BW, The Print

Check out grain-minimizing software such as Neat Image (www.neatimage.com) 
or Grain Surgery (www.grainsurgery.com). I've tried both and prefer Neat 
Image. The Pro version works as a Photoshop plugin and is full of options 
and controls. You scan even-toned portions of your image, and it builds a 
grain-reduction profile that you apply to your image to a greater or lesser 
degree. The improvement in smoothness and grain reduction is astonishing. I 
then follow up my reduced-grain images with Ultra Sharpen 
(www.ultrasharpen.com) which sharpens edges without re-sharpening what's 
left of the grain. The resulting images are sharp and as grainless as I wish.

>  From: djbibo1 [mailto:djbibo1@...]
>
>I'm new to digital B&W output, but I've already fallen in love with it.  I 
>have found one little annoyance though. (OK.  One that I want help 
>with)  I've found that when I go from scanned B&W originals, I get 
>substantially more grain than I'm used to in wet printing.  Does anyone 
>have any suggestions on how to minimize this effect, other than going to 
>digital capture (lets avoid that debate) or getting a better scanner 
>(Already use an Imacon 848)?


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