[filmscanners] Sharpening and Grain

2004-02-23 Thread Howard Grill
Hi Art, I am sharpening using what I feel is a superb product...PhotoKit Sharpener. The results I am getting are better than when I 'self sharpened' with USM. The prints, when enlarged, seem to have too much grain for my taste prior to the image being what I feel is sharp enough. The slides are

[filmscanners] RE: [filmscanners_Digest] filmscanners Digest for Sun 22 Feb, 2004

2004-02-22 Thread Howard Grill
Petru...Thanks for your response. I looked at your Black and White sample from your website..though I have to admit I looked at it in the web browser as opposed to in Photoshop. While it looks to me that Neat Image did a nice job removing grain it also looked to me like there was also a loss in

[filmscanners] Grain In scanned 35mm film

2004-02-21 Thread Howard Grill
How effective are products like Grain Surgery, Neat Image and Noise Ninja at removing what appears to be film grain after sharpening images scanned at 4000 ppi. My 35mm film is scanned on a Polaroid SS4000 Plus and taken on Velvia and Provia...so the film is fine grained. But I still find the

[filmscanners] RE: Silverfast Aquisition

2004-01-25 Thread Howard Grill
the data into PS to alter it there so that it can be done with layers and you can change your mind or make duplicate images with different layers. That is what I am finding confusing... Howard From: Howard Grill I am sure the answer to this is simple, but it is causing me some confusion

[filmscanners] Silverfast Acquisition

2004-01-24 Thread Howard Grill
I am sure the answer to this is simple, but it is causing me some confusion. If I scan a 35 mm slide with a filmscanner using Silverfast Ai software and set the shadow and highlight in Silverfast prior to the final scan...how do those points translate into Photoshop? More specifically, say I set