'ello Olympus
* On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 03:33:30PM -0700, Moose said:
> On 7/2/2010 2:40 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> >> Thanks. It is an odd thing, and I agree with Moose than it does look
> >> somewhat contrived, but so long as it adds something to it, rather than
> >> takes it away It's not a bad thing.
> > Argh! Now I'm being confused with Moose. Oh, the humanity!!!!!
>
> Just a typo, don't take it TOO seriously. :-)
Only as it works in your favour. I think. I'll take it that way anyway.
:)
> As an aside, I believe it's possible to add grain that looks very
> natural. The Grain Filter in PS has a Gaussian option and some
> adjustability. One may go further by scanning a blank portion of the film
> the grain of which one wishes to emulate, then add it as a layer in an
> image editor.
Probably. This was just in lightroom. May be worth investigating
though...
> Either approach generally works better if applied at full size, before
> the image is resized for print/web. Get it looking right at original
> size, then when downsized, it will look like images with inherent grain
> that have been similarly downsized.
Makes sense ... you do want to downsize the original image.
> Personally, I'm not generally a fan of grain. There are times when it works
> for me, but they are far fewer than the
> times it doesn't.
I think in this case it smoothes out an otherwise quite mediocre image.
While I was playing with the grain slider I found (perhaps strangely) that
the addition of grain actually improved the sharpness of the image. I need
to sort out exactly what I mean here, but it fits in with my experience
with film in days gone by.
p
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