Digital BW, The Print

Remember that at the advent of photography, everyone was trying to  
make photographs look like paintings until a few brave, forward- 
looking souls embraced the medium on its own terms. And when motion  
pictures came along, folks made movies that looked like plays until  
someone figured out that the technology made it possible to move the  
camera. In both cases, inherent aspects of the technology enabled a  
new creative language. So here's hoping that it doesn't take us too  
long to stop trying to emulate the old and really engage with the  
new. And then, in the year 2020, you can laugh when some young post- 
digital photographer asks where to get filters for simulating CCD  
noise... like in the old days.

Harry

On Oct 23, 2007, at 5:34 AM, Myron Gochnauer wrote:

> I'll second Eric's suggestion of RealGrain. It is the best I've found
> (or at least equal to the best).
>
> Aside from allowing control of color/monochrome grain and low/midtone/
> highlight grain (with quite a few presents), it also uses variable
> softening to simulate various formats of film. It may seem that you
> would never want to "unsharpen" an image, but when combined with
> various grain sizes and distributions it is remarkably good at
> disguising digital noise and simulating "real" grain. I almost always
> use it if I "up-size" an image more than 30% or so.
>
> Myron
>
>
> On 23-Oct-07, at 8:26 AM,
> DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>
>> There are 20 messages in this issue.
>> 1c. Re: Creating grain
>>     Posted by: "Eric Neilsen" e.neilsen2@worldnet.att.net  
>> platinumeric
>>     Date: Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:13 am ((PDT))
>>
>> Pglombick, Adding grain, converting to B&W, tone control, split
>> toning, and
>> more can be done with a cool plug in suite for Photoshop from
>> Imagenomic.
>> Noiseware Professional, Portraiture and REAL GRAIN have become a
>> regular
>> part of my work flow. Noiseware is one of the better (best) noise
>> reduction
>> software tools out there and if you do any work with skin
>> retouching, the
>> portraiture plug in can't be beat for quick easy skin retouching,
>> but the
>> real grain portion is what your after here; adding grain.
>
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