Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rei Shinozuka wrote: > > do you keep a digital "reference print" on your screen when you photoshop > up an image? or visit some websites of nice images? > > it's so easy to go too far with contrast or sharpening > and you can get raster fever after a while. > > -rei > I've got some photos hanging in the walls here in my office where all my computer stuff of course is but Photoshopping is not the contact struggle of perspective that darkroom work is. A Photoshoped image you open up at the next day and you can tweak it if need be. But in the darkroom with the lights going off and on and picking stuff off of funny contact sheets and watching stuff slowly come up under the safelights you can print for hours and everything is too dark. If there was just anybody to ask, a ten year old kid...."daddy that's dark!" than you'd be OK. But NOOOOOO we just go on and on and the next day look at our dry prints and wonder where are minds were. Not the case on working with Photoshop on the monitor for uploading and Inkjetting. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/