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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Black & White => Topic started by: pflower on May 27, 2016, 05:22:00 pm

Title: True Grain by Grubba Software
Post by: pflower on May 27, 2016, 05:22:00 pm
Anyone come across this and have anything to say about it?  Having lost my darkroom and converting to digital I still miss the look of film.  Yes I have tried NIK and other B&W conversion programs but wonder if this offers anything.

Any thoughts?
Title: Re: True Grain by Grubba Software
Post by: Bart_van_der_Wolf on May 27, 2016, 06:31:24 pm
Quote from: pflower on May 27, 2016, 05:22:00 pm
Anyone come across this and have anything to say about it?  Having lost my darkroom and converting to digital I still miss the look of film.  Yes I have tried NIK and other B&W conversion programs but wonder if this offers anything.

Any thoughts?

Hi,

TrueGrain is IMHO a very good simulator of film grain, and it offers the right controls for simulating one's own film grain recipe. Personally I do not like to add film grain, but if I had to then I'd probably do it with TrueGrain.

Cheers,
Bart
Title: Re: True Grain by Grubba Software
Post by: JimAscher on May 28, 2016, 10:33:08 am
Quote from: BartvanderWolf on May 27, 2016, 06:31:24 pm
Hi,

TrueGrain is IMHO a very good simulator of film grain, and it offers the right controls for simulating one's own film grain recipe. Personally I do not like to add film grain, but if I had to then I'd probably do it with TrueGrain.

Cheers,
Bart



I haven't used TrueGrain for years, as with Bart I don't like to (have a need to) add film grain.  However, not to split hairs -- I don't regard it as a "simulator."  As I understand it, it employs the ACTUAL film grain from many different films.  Its film grains are not digitally created, but photographed from the individual film stock.  A very good product in my estimation.
Title: Re: True Grain by Grubba Software
Post by: Rob C on May 28, 2016, 05:18:54 pm
Quote from: pflower on May 27, 2016, 05:22:00 pm
Anyone come across this and have anything to say about it?  Having lost my darkroom and converting to digital I still miss the look of film.  Yes I have tried NIK and other B&W conversion programs but wonder if this offers anything.

Any thoughts?


Rash lad! You'll get hanged.

;-)

Rob C

P.S.

I quite agree; it can't be beaten. In fact, I find myself adding it very, very often, but only to b/whites. I don't use any plug-ins - I just play around with Noise in Photoshop and that way, find myself with quite a lot of control about how strong it might look, and where I want it to fit.

Seems to me that people who use the proprietary 'grains' tend to overdo it somewhat; after all, grain wasn't that intrusive unless you really, really tried!