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 image sharpness in the eyes and hair. I am not sure if those images were already sharpened or not. What do you think, having printed them?
Howard >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. > So far my experience with Neat Image has been very good. For an example see the paragraph that talks about b&w scans on my web page: http://www.geocities.com/petru2/scanner/ Note that this sample is not the best of the best but it should give you an idea. BTW, I think that the NeatImage filter should be applied before sharpening the image. I'm not 100% sure about this but I think I read this in the user manual. >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 grain >I see after scanning and processing as objectionable when I am making large >inkjet prints to 13x19 inches. > Wow, I find my SS4000 Provia 400 scans to be very smooth compared to my negative scans. I wonder how you will like the grain from samples above :) Regards, Petru. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
