Digital BW, The Print

I suspect you are using a ccd scanner like a Nikon or something like
that. Oh man, not the scanner for that film. Don't give up on the
Photoshop Noise Reduc filter though. I've saved many a Nikon scan with
that capability. It just takes some time. Make sure you are judging at
100%.

john


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, David Keenan
<ausdlk@...> wrote:
>
> I am working with 30 some-odd 5400 dpi scans of Ilford Pan F film.
> 
> I'd expect the resulting images to be virtually grainless.This is
evident onscreen and in a print.
> 
> But in some images shadow areas are particularly grainy. I dunno
maybe it's that nasty grain aliasing affect that I read about some
scanning doing. The grain manifests itself in a pattern of speckly
white dots.
> 
> I really don't want to rescan the image but I can if necessary
return to the original scanned image file. What I hope to learn via
this post is if there are any PS techniques that can be used to hide
this in selected areas.
> 
> I have tried selective noise reduction using the Photoshop filter
and Noise Ninja without limited success.
> 
> Dave.
>