Digital BW, The Print

> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:33:28AM -0500, Austin Franklin wrote:
> >
> > > Personally I don't get on with the dodging and burning tools. Far
> > > too crude!
> > > Instead I make feathered selections and then dodge and burn that
> > > area using the
> > > curves tool. It gives me far more control, especially when there
> > > is need to
> > > manipulate contrast locally. All this can be done in 16-bit.
> >
> > Tony,
> >
> > I agree.  I do this the same way.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Austin
> >
>
> Disgraceful! I thought you were an image purist Austin - how dare you
> manipulate nature's tones in defiance of the original scene <g>!

I am an image purist!  Just because someone else got them wrong along the
way, and I have to fix them, I find modifying curves (in only selective
areas as need be) to be a far more "pure" approach.

;-)