On 12/6/05, Rick Womer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Following a few suggestions, I applied Gaussian blur > to these pix; moved the slider back and forth until > the grain was minimized without losing detail. That > happened at a radius of 2.5 pixels. > > Here are the modified shots: > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3930524 > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3930529 > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3930530 > > The originals are: > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3928151 > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3928147 > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3928143 > > (Tom, does the blur make her look a little less > threatening in the third pic?) > > This blur tool is nice. Ya learn somethin' new every > day... > > Rick > (having trouble getting down to work, having worked > all weekend)
Keeping in mind that I generally like grain, and that I really liked #1 in it's original form, I gotta say that I prefer the original to the GB version. Seems to me that there's too much loss of detail, all to remove something that I didn't find all that objectional in the first place. cheers, frank "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
