Digital BW, The Print

A better solution:   Shoot film.   

There is a notion of integrity to one's materials.   I hope that his teacher 
made that point.

Sanders McNew
www.mcnew.net


In a message dated 10/14/05 7:02:22 AM, Jeff writes:


> One of my students wanted to get a grain effect in some B&W images that 
> he'd captured
> digitally. He shot a roll of B&W film, lightly (under) exposing the film to 
> an out-of-focus card
> and then scanned that and used it as a separate layer in Photoshop. He had 
> to play with the
> apply modes and opacity a bit, but it was a cheap and reusable way to get a 
> grain effect. It
> worked well and, by golly, even looked like real film grain! ;-)
> 



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