Adding grain to B/W pictures

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Subject   Adding grain to B/W pictures  [SIMILAR]
Posted by   Petteri Sulonen [PROFILE]
Date/Time   10:20:41, 29 January 2005 (GMT)

I finally figured out a way to add grain to digital B/W images that actually looks a lot like the real thing. It's so painfully obvious, too, that I feel like an idiot for trying all kinds of Byzantine techniques before.

Before (actual pixels crop):
http://194.100.88.243/petteri/pont/img/How_to/n_Digital_BW/nograin.jpg

After (rather an extreme example, but it's easy to get it subtler, too):
http://194.100.88.243/petteri/pont/img/How_to/n_Digital_BW/grain.jpg

Write-up here:
[ http://194.100.88.243/petteri/pont/How_to/n_Digital_BW/a_Digital_Black_and_White.html?page=5 ]

/Petteri
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