This is very interesting. There seems to be an overall effect of the
blending that influences saturation and masks some of the plastic-y
feeling that video sensors often have. As has so often been the case,
my eyes have been opened to possibilities here on this list that I
have not been exposed to elsewhere. Thanks Moose. And thanks Mr.
Maitani, wherever you are. ;-)
On Jul 23, 2005, at 10:39 PM, Moose wrote:
> I don't think electronic noise will ever look like film grain. I'm no
> expert in the alternate technique, but I have played with it a little.
>
> What one does is to scan a blank frame of film, then use that scan
> as a
> semi-transparent layer over the digi image. Here are some different
> treatments of your sample
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/Grain/>. With the one where I
> added a lot of grain, it did things I didn't like in the shadows.
> In the
> last one, I used a threshold layer to create a mask to limit the grain
> effect to the brighter areas only. This is only quick, rough work, but
> should give you an idea of the many possibilities.
>
> Grain, by the way, is from AGFA Vista, because that's what I first
> found
> with some blank frame area. I tried both exposed and unexposed frames,
> adjusting the exposure in the scan and got someehat different grain
> effects. I then played a bit with levels, curves, sharpening,
> greyscale,
> bitmap. There are a lot of different looking grain patterns available
> from just one source. One could even take the grain of a favorite B&W
> film and put it in a color image.
>
> Moose
>
>
>
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