Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: digital grain
From: "lea" <lea@whinydogpress.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 20:31:09 -0500
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020408162443.06542410@pop.alink.net> <20020409004836.26999@smtp10.on.aibn.com>

I do it in Photoshop by shaking my monitor.

Lea
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From: "John Brownlow" <john@johnbrownlow.com>
To: "Leica Users digest" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: digital grain


: 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.
:
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In reply to: Message from Jim Brick <jim@brick.org> ([Leica] RE: digital grain)
Message from John Brownlow <john@johnbrownlow.com> (Re: [Leica] RE: digital grain)