On 7 Dec 2004 at 18:54, Juan Buhler wrote: > The other day I started playing in Photoshop with some grain. I was > thinking about shooting a frame of Tri-X of a flat grey card, scanning > that and extracting the grain, to use on digital images. Then I > realized that good results can be obtained with some noise and > gaussian blur. > > What do the purists in the list think about these idea of fake grain?
Yep, very interesting, I've though about trying the same. I'd suggest that most people seem to have an issue with grain added to image for electronic display, I suspect that if a believable noise pattern was added in the correct fashion the prints could be quite convincing. The prints coming from my printer at this moment seem to display a slight but visible mis-registration of the colours so I'm not game to try it as yet as I suspect that an error like that would really kill a grainy mono print. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
