Digital BW, The Print

I've some older FP4 35mm negs that I used expose at 200 asa and develop in Acutol, 
they are pin sharp but much more grainy than the film/developer I use now. I tried to 
reduce the visible grain in a scan by applying the Grain Surgery plugin with Photoshop 
on a freinds Mac, but it was greyed out and wouldn't run. It would run on colour 
scans. Is this typical, does this type of software only work on colour or C41 process 
B&W?

Steve Bell

Excuse me for asking the obvious?

Why didn't you convert it to RGB apply the filter, then convert back to 
greyscale?




 
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The program may require you to conver the grayscale to RGB before it
can be used. After noise removal, simpy re-convert to grayscale or
leave it as is, B+W in RGB. I am not familiar with Grain surgery, but
several  other programs assume a color scan and require this .Hope
this helps

                    Stuart

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Bell"
<steve@l...> wrote:
> I've some older FP4 35mm negs that I used expose at 200 asa and
develop in Acutol, 
> they are pin sharp but much more grainy than the film/developer I
use now. I tried to 
> reduce the visible grain in a scan by applying the Grain Surgery
plugin with Photoshop 
> on a freinds Mac, but it was greyed out and wouldn't run. It would
run on colour 
> scans. Is this typical, does this type of software only work on
colour or C41 process 

> B&W?
> 
> Steve Bell

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Editor P.O.V. Image 
Service" <editor@p...> wrote:
> Excuse me for asking the obvious?
> 
> Why didn't you convert it to RGB apply the filter, then convert back to 
> greyscale?
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> Keith Krebs


Aaah! It was late, I need some early nights.

Steve Bell