How do you clean up the film grain and noise in scans of both slides and negatives? I know some people like that harsh, grainy look, but I'd like to make it as clean and detailed as possible. The red/green/blue/etc. particles are more or less obvious and obnoxious. FWIW there is no B&W film.
Unfortunately the modern software is mostly designed to denoise RAW files.
I cannot easily rescan as many have deteriorated or were lost in the floods many years ago. I don't think my FireBase scanner works with modern hardware anyway.
Thanks, but I'm looking at E-6 and C-41 images captured 20-30+ years ago, mostly scanned many years ago on Polaroid 35mm and Nikon ED-4000/8000 scanners, and hoping people shooting film today have some TIFF processing workflow that would be relevant. I cannot go back. The places are gone and most people are dead.
Do you have an example? Is it possible you're seeing sharpening artifacts or sensor noise from the scanning sensor itself?
In any case, noise reduction software tends to work pretty well if you want to get rid of film grain. I just tried a few scans in Adobe Camera RAW, and the basic noise reduction controls did a fine job.
