Digital BW, The Print

Pieris,

Thanks so much for taking the time to review.  Below are some 
responses.

- Font is too large by two to three points.
The web page font is intentionally large because I go into a lot of 
detail and I figure a viewer could spend hours reading it.  
Therefore, I wanted to make it easy to view on a monitor.  I 
compensate by making the print friendly pages a smaller, typical 
point size.  The workflow page may be easier to read by displaying 
the print friendly version of it.  Just click the darkroom enlarger 
icon at the top right of the page to display the print friendly 
verison.

- No title on the front page. This will prevent high rankings in
search engines.
The web pages you are viewing are really about four pages included 
into two dynamic web templates.  I use Microsoft Frontpage 2003 and 
somewhere along the way Frontpage no longer allows me to add a 
title.  But I will see if I can add it directly to the code.  
Frontpage does allow me to add titles to the print friendly pages 
(which I have already done), but they are only one page included into 
one dynamic template.  Thanks for the suggestion.

- When using forced air, be careful to:
+ give the can a burst into the open air before aiming it at anything.
This will clear any condensed liquid that might remain in the tube.
+ never tilt the can.
Good suggestion, I will see about adding it as a Tell me more 
collapsible list item.

- Not clear why we're converting/assigning profiles when that was
probably done by the scanner already.
My Nikon scanner embeds its own version of Adobe RGB (1998) in the 
image.  In Photoshop, I convert the image to Photoshop's version.
 I thought if I had to, others may also encounter the same situation.

- Once you "convert to profile" it is redundant to then assign the 
same profile.
Agreed.

- The first thing I ever do after a scan is to look at the histogram 
to make sure there was no clipping.
Good suggestion.  I will incorporate it.

- "perform a capture sharpen" not clear whether you're advocating the
two step sharpening approach?
Actually, I am advocating the three step approach that is becoming 
popular.  Step one, the capture sharpen, tries to restore some of the 
sharpness lost when converting analog to digital.  Step two (under 
Enhancing) is a local sharpening (often called creative sharpening) 
that is done only on select areas of the image that you want to boost 
sharpening over the rest of the image.  And the last step, output 
sharpening (under Pre-Print), is done to `oversharpen' the
image to make up for some loss of sharpness when an image is printed.

- In your discussion of pixel depth, I got the (false) impression that
the CMYK gamut is larger than the RGB gamut.
I see your point.  What I was trying to portray was even though CMYK 
used more bits and bytes, it didn't mean it was the better color 
mode.  I will reword this to make it clearer.

Thanks,
Thomas