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Re: "Test Strips" - how John Paul Caponigro does them

2002-10-15 by Bill Iverson

See pp. 63-64 of his Adobe Photoshop Master Class (2000 ed.), it's 
short enough & intuitive enough to pick up loitering at your local 
bookstore (although the book itself is well worth the money).

Bill Iverson

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "frankg_photo" <frank@f...> 
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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