Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:16 PM 2/6/2006, you wrote: >Digital wins. I lose. > >Marc That's depressing, Marc! I know you can do it. Take your basic point and shoot and go out and play. It doesn't cost anything. You can delete the mistakes. When you have some photos that look nice on the LCD screen, take your memory card to Walgreens and have them make some prints. It's cheap and easy. When you decide you want to do more with the photos, get a basic Photoshop how-to book and flip through it. You don't need to sit down and read it all, just use it as a reference book and look something up when you have a question. Pretty soon you'll find that you are getting better results than you ever could in the darkroom. Photography will be fun again. Then you will be frustrated with the limitations of your point and shoot and you'll want a professional digital SLR. Then you will decide you can print the photos better and cheaper than Walgreens and you'll get an Epson printer and some Ilford Gallerie paper. After you've amazed your friends with what you can do on the Epson, you'll decide you want to experiment with other papers and inks. That's when you'll want to investigate the R (Raster) I (Image) P (Profile) software. You don't even need to think about it until you get to that point. I printed digitally for years without a RIP. Don't let it intimidate you. Go for it. I know you'll love it when you get over the mental block!! Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com