hey - this is the best i could do in about 10 minutes of playing.

In short well i put a black layer behind the image and then used the blend options on the image to do a gradual blend of the black side of the spectrum "this layer" (hold the alt button when moving the slider and it splits it - my values read 50/195) just despeckled a duplicate layer of the image and put it to about 70-80% transparency, that took the edge off the grain. Then put it all onto one layer and played with the levels / brightness contrast.

Hope you like it :)

edit - of course if you had a lot of time you could just paint over each "granule" (?) to get the image smoother - but that would probably take about 2-3 hours ;)

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