Dear Richard, This is mentioned in the photoshop bible and other books I think.
The blue channel is generally considered to be noisiest channel on chips, whether scanning or on camera. In channels, select the blue one if that is the noiseiest. Then go to filter/blur/smart blur. Then choose the quality high option. Then use smart blur and see how much to apply, the default is normally quite close. The using shift select the remaining channels (excluding the noisiest, then apply usm at the amount you want. Say a radius of .7 or digital camera files. With the amount once you have reached a figure you want divide by 4 and apply 4 times, maybe fading the last one in a little instead of 100%. Then that's it. Make sure you do this on screen with the resized image and use the zoom tool and view print size. Works for me. You could buy the action form fred miranda which I think is good as well. That's its if it makes sense. It give a more pleasing result. cheers Ian Reynolds =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
