Digital BW, The Print

Hi:

Another thing to try is using "smartblur" (filters/blur), in Photoshop.  I 
use that to minimize halftone dots in scans, and suspect it might work well 
on a grainy B&W scan.  That filter ignores boundaries, working mainly on 
smooth, contiguous areas.

Please let us know how that works out.

Jack Winberg

At 04:40 PM 3/30/2005, you wrote:
> > Any suggestions on taming some really grainy tri x scans that
> > were shot about 25 years ago. It looks like they were over
> > developed as well, so they are very contrasty with large
> > reticulated grain. Would like to make some prints from these,
> > have tried USM on a layer, then adjusting the layer
> > transparency to allow some sharpness thru, and using alpha
> > mask tricks. Seems to work farily well, but it needs more.
> > I also ran them through noise ninja, and that is somewhat
> > successful at removing the grain. Any other suggestions for
> > making these grainy scans into a creamier print?
> >
> >



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