Getting a grain effect in Black and white digital images

How do I achieve a grain effect on my digital black and white images.
Could you send me tips to [email protected]??
Thanks,
Albert

Groucho
Welcome to the Apple user discussion forums
1 - Please do not use your e-mail address in these forums - it will attract SPAM to you and SPAMMERS to the forum - and the host probably will edit it out
2 - re B&W - not that iPhoto will only wrk with RGB photos so even if they are B&W they need the sRGB profile
3 - to do sophisticated editing (like adding effects - i.e. grain) you need a third party editor - like PhotoShop Elements - iPhoto is a great but pretty much consumer level photo management system
LN

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