Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 4/8/02 jim@brick.org wrote: >The way you do it in film, using an enlarger, is rap your enlarger head >with your hand during your exposure. The enlarger must shake for roughly >10% to 20% of the total exposure. This is called "shaking the grain out." > >And as soon as you stop laughing... this is no joke! > >The exposure is long enough for the sharp image to register but the edge is >taken off of that oh so gritty grain. It's like a Softar filter without the >filter. The image still looks sharp but the fine detail (grain edge effect) >is smoothed over. that is very easy to mimic in Photoshop duplicate the image to a new layer. Set the opacity of the top layer to 10-20%. Now apply a Gaussian Blur to the top layer (my guess is 1-5 pixels). Experiment. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html