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It was suggested that I add some "grain" to my b&w images to simulate actual b&w file. So, I took another of my tiresome series of SP's, cropped it, and applied the following procedures (on four copies of the basic (color) image.

- Overlay layer of 50% grey (no noise added) as reference
- Tri-X 200 Action
- Tri-X 400 Action
- Tri-X 800 Action

This is the Tri-X 400 version. Note that I should have spent a little time on the original to soften the hot spots (and remove a few facial blemishes -- why do only women get to wear makeup?) I realize there are a gazillion addional ways of doing the grain addition and the b&w conversion, but I didn't have a gazillion hours to try them all -- plus, my hands are getting stiff. Not sure where I got the actions (probably some place pointed to by another pbaser), but they're very simple: Noise, Brightness/Contrast, Channel Mixer -- each with diffent parameters on the image adjustments.

The following image is a composite of the four images for direct comparison.




This is the SP I had initially posted for today.