Just for the record, Genuine Fractals, aside from being an excellent
uprez/downrez tool, also has a feature that adds what looks like real
old-fashioned grain to the image. The effect is controlled by a
slider, and it works very well. Grain, and to a lesser extent digital
noise, are good tools for roughing up areas of images to make them
look less plastic. It also smoothes over (by roughing) defects, etc.
Grain and noise can make areas look sharper, too.
Not to mention your notion of not always wanting images to look as
your eye saw them. Poetic license, eh?
--Bob Whitmire
www.bobwhitmire.com
On Jul 1, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Paul Cox wrote:
> Very nice lighting, and I
> really like the effect of the grain. Grain is actually one of the
> main
> reasons I still tend to prefer film. I don't always (usually?) want
> my
> pictures to look exactly as my eye saw them. Grain, for me at
> least, is
> one of those things that keeps shots from having that candy-coated
> quality
> that seems to make many photographs I find on the web look so similar.
--
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