Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

Very cool technique. I had heard of doing that before but never knew exactly what was being done. Keeping the high bit image and then applying the final manipulations also sounds like the ideal methodolgy to maintain a full tonal range.

I will give it a try and if I need a bit of help I will let you know.

BTW, I now have two 1280's, one color and one MIS VM. The 7000 has FS inks. I am looking forward to the Neutral FS offering.

Thanks
Mike
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Roark 
  To: DigitalB&WPrint 
  Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 5:12 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] OT-Edge Burning Techniques


  Mike,

  > I would like to know how people are
  >accomplishing edge burning techniques in Photoshop?

  I find myself using 900 pixel brushes a lot to, among other things, paint
  quick masks, slowly building them up with low opacity.  Then I can use
  brightness/contrast or curves to see what looks the best.  I've used
  gradients, but I like the control to match the subject's contours that the
  painted mask allows.

  I do a lot of cloning back and forth between duplicate images also. I keep
  the high-bit-depth raw scan and the working 8-bit image at the exact same
  size so I can go back to the raw scan to do adjustments, then convert to
  8-bit and clone in the information I want at whatever contrast or darkness.
  As long as the working image has not been cropped, the clone tool is easy to
  set at (0,0).  I like to paint in things at low opacity and, often, one
  small area at a time to see the effects on a very localized basis.   (I've
  been doing that right now, as a matter of fact.  A "final" image on the wall
  started to look like it needed some more work.)  One result of my working
  habits is that there are seldom two prints that are exactly the same.

  Paul
  http://www.PaulRoark.com


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