removing grain from scanned negative

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Pete Pederson
Sep 12, 2003
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How can I reduce/remove grain in the background of an image using Elements? I’d rather not spend money on a plug in, so I’d really appreciate instructions/suggestions for doing this with Elements alone.
Thanks.
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Jim Hess
Sep 12, 2003
Try the Filter|Noise|Despeckle. It is kind of a quirky filter, but it sometimes works for me.
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Richard Coencas
Sep 12, 2003
Often doing a duplicate layer above the background, applying a gaussian blur and then changing to Color Mode will give some smoothing as well.

Rich
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Pete Pederson
Sep 12, 2003
Will give both of these a try. Thanks.
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ZR
Sep 18, 2003
I had the same problem scanning with my Epson 2400 (at 2400 dpi).

the I discovered that for some reason PE 2 gets an RGB file (B&W but RGB…). I still don’t know how to permanently (by default) get rid of that, but since then, I click on:

IMAGE / MODE / Grayscale

which conberts the photo to Grayscae; AND gets rid of the heavy grain…!! Try it.

Later on I go in again with all the filters and blur effects etc. But first see if you have the same RGB problem.

Oh – and if you find how to set it to GRAYSCALE as Defult, please let me know too…

ZR

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:19:50 -0700, "Pete Pederson" wrote:

Will give both of these a try. Thanks.

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