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Re: [Digital BW] "Test Strips" - how are you doing them ?

2002-10-14 by Mark Savoia

There is an inexpensive product called Teststrip that works as a plug-in 
and lets you do just that.
Mark

frankg_photo wrote:

> In order to conserve paper, especially if you're using a premium
> priced product like Photo Rag, how can I best do "test strips" in PS ?
>
> For those who did not work in a conventional darkroom, test strips
> are multiple exposure strips made on a single sheet of paper(to
> compare subtle increments of exposure & save wasting entire sheets.
>
> Obviously the issue isn't exposure here but I thought there must be a
> way of applying various differences, perhaps on separate layers, and
> having them side by side on a sheet? Or, perhaps there is a way of
> utilizing off cuts from larger sheets, & printing a portion of the
> image.
>
> Anyway, if you're working in some such way, I'd be interested in
> hearing your method/s
> thanks
> Frankg
>

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