Well, Herb, we're coming at this from entirely different perspectives ... I don't want to edit digital stuff through photoshop to give me something similar to what I get from film. And, frankly, it's hard for me to believe that Grain Surgery will provide the wide variety of grain patterns and texture available with different films, different exposures, different developers, and different developing and processing techniques. Are you suggesting that Grain Surgery will give me the grain of Efke 25 processed in ID-II, or Tri-X pushed two stops and processed in Acufine, or HP5+ in Rodinal 1:50? The idea of making a digital image imitate a film-based photograph just seems silly to me.
As for color, well, I'm no expert, but it seems to me that the same situation exists, because different films and exposures provide different degrees of graininess. Will Grain Surgery deal with those difference? What seems to be happening is that the digital people want digital to be all things to all people, so software is developed to get digitally captured images to imitate to some degree that which film does. Frankly, I like the digital image for what it is, and the silver-based photographic image for what it is. Herb Chong wrote: > if you are working in color and can tell the difference between synthesized > film grain and real film grain, your tool or technique isn't good enough. > Grain Surgery 2 should produce indistinguishable results up to the > resolution limits of your image.
