Digital BW, The Print

Sorry for late post to this thread.

I also bought it, and think it useful. It's not really THE Zone 
System, of course, but has a certain resonance with those who use 
Ansel's insights to advantage.

Bizarrely, they recommend its use for colorizing B & W images.

It to me it is a useful elaboration of the "Color Balance" filter. 11 
"zones" rather than "shadows, mids, highlights", any channel(s) you 
want to affect. You can adjust the "width" of the "zones". And you 
can work "by the numbers" rather than by trying to match curve shapes.

I think it will also be useful in tweaking profiles.

Finally, although the instructions state it is to be used on the 
original file, one can easily work in layers by creating a duplicate 
of the Background layer, and using the Ozone filter on that instead.

-Bruce


>Use Adjustment Layers
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>Mike
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>--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "th1138x" <th1138x@y...>
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>>  Actually I did buy it. It does have some advantages over the curves
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>>  levels. You can make 11 adjustments while viewing the result before
>>  you commit to them.  I'm not sure how you would do that in
>photoshop?
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>>  Star Gazer
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