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Piezography Curve Adjustment Tool

set 12, 2016

In early March of 2016 we introduced our new digital negative system we call PiezoDN [1] . Along with its amazing ability to make digital negatives for any darkroom process, we added a small tool cal...

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Debunking a Workflow Myth

apr 10, 2016

!!! I missed last Friday! So sorry everyone. We’ll I’ve been wanting to get this off my shoulders for while so here goes. A while back (2004 to be exact) I invented the Luminance/Color mode curve laye...

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Perception of Black

apr 6, 2016

Black color (warm or cool), paper texture, light angle, and light temperature, can all effect the visual darkness of a print. It's possible to take a matte print, that is printed and framed correctly,...

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8bit to 16bit

apr 5, 2016

*This one is complicated and brief. It may make more questions come my way, but here goes.* You can convert 8bit color images into 16bit color images that act (a bit) like 16bit images if the original...

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Adobe RGB Default

apr 3, 2016

This is a no-brainer but it constantly trips people up. The first thing you want to do when you install Photoshop on a new computer/system is go to Edit>Color Settings and set the RGB working space fr...

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New Sensors

mar 31, 2016

Top camera sensors are now equal or better than camera lenses. That means all the old-world film-era gab about good lenses now applies again. But a good lens is not always about sharpness . . . . At l...

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Printers & Sensors . . . .

mar 29, 2016

On most Epson (and many non-espon) printers, most body sensors are “flip lever” sensors. That means that you can pretty much stick a pencil or folded piece of paper in any sensor-area of the printer t...

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How Warm is Warm?

mar 28, 2016

This one is from the direct observation of many “calibrated” environments . . . . We see color emitting from a modern monitor differently than color reflecting off a piece of paper. Our biological whi...

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L*a*b* Color Space

mar 24, 2016

Today’s hint is much shorter than yesterday’s. Nearly every CMYK and RGB color space is defined by a physical thing in real life (IRL). Adobe RGB encompasses what we deem acceptable maximum color gamu...

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Tonal Selection & Curves

mar 23, 2016

A tonal selection curve is always more complicated than a master (or base) curve. (The master base curve on this example image is shown above.) Use the tonal selector tool on a new curve adjustment ...

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Raw Scanning Workflow

mar 21, 2016

The master curve of an inverted image is (roughly) done with the following steps: Shadows, Highlights, Mid-tones, then final edit of Shadows. 1. Invert the image (Command or Control “I”) 2. Add a curv...

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First Rule of Scanning

mar 20, 2016

For many of you on this list, this will be repeat. But it still needs to be written down. The first rule of BW negative scanning is to scan RAW. Get the scan to be as close to the original negative as...

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