Digital BW, The Print

> From: "mtucker508" <mark@...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 01:42:34 -0000
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Beyond the name: selling prints/print quality of old
> vs new
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Steadman Uhlich"
> <steadmanuhlich@k...> wrote:
>> What did you do to that image on the home page (the link you
> sent) to get that "aged look"  was that the image on canvas with
> varnish?
> 
> 
> Steadman,
> 
> You know I love you and all. But sometimes a guy just needs his
> privacy. If'n I told you, it would invalidate so many things that I've
> said on this list.
> 
> OK...OK...When I see a wall texture, or some rust, or a funky wall,
> I photograph it straight on. I keep a folder of these hi-rez scans
> on my hard drive. In this case, I took the image of the barn, and
> then copied the layer, and then GaussianBlurred it using Darken
> in the Mode, and then added noise to that layer. Then I took that
> scan of the rust, or my office wall, or whatever it was, and then
> added that layer, using SoftLight mode. Then you see what ya
> got, then you go back in those underlying layers and boost the
> contrast.
> 
> Then add a TON of magenta to counteract the varnish! And print
> it on canvas. Someday, I'll get bold enough to work on the image
> by hand, locally, with a charcoal pencil.
> 
> Then I'll spray it all and call it Archival (yeah, right....). We are
> quickly leaving the area of photography, and entering
> printmaking 101, (something I know nothing about).
> 
> -MT
> 
> PS. If you live in Rochester, come to a lecture that we're giving at
> RIT tomorrow night at 7pm. There's a show there too with 36
> prints from my 7000. (Oh, God, the fear of metamerism....)
> 
> 
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