[filmscanners] Re: Anyone Have Experience WithGrainSurgerySoftware?

["" <BobGldstn@aol.com>]

What's NEAT??


In a message dated 12/30/01 3:44:13 PM, mlidaka@ameritech.net writes:

>I am trying out the demo and I have not been impressed either.  I am more
>impressed with NEAT.
>
>Maris
>
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>From: "Mark T." <markthomasz@ozemail.com.au>
>To: <mlidaka@ameritech.net>
>Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 5:01 PM
>Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Anyone Have Experience WithGrainSurgerySoftware?
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>FWIW my experiments with the demo of this software left me *very* cold.
>
>It seems quite effective on patterned images (eg flatbed scans from
>textured paper).  However, I found it to have little benefit on normal
>grain - when it was adjusted up enough to be any 'better' than the usual
>grain softening techniques, it introduced strange vertical streaks and
>other artefacts.  Plus the effect is inconsistent, giving a very odd look
>to the images.  Vuescan's grain removal is far more usable, I think.
>
>Maybe I just didn't get the hang of it?  But I wasn't all that impressed
>with their demo images either (is it just me, or does the 'grain' look
>a
>little fake..?), so that must be a bad sign.  Too fussy, perhaps - but
>at
>that price I'd want something a lot better.
>
>mt
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