Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Michael Kravit" 
<michael.kravit@w...> wrote:
> Jerry,
> 
> Ah, so that has been my problem....I had no idea that you could feather a 
feather. That will really spread out the edge. The problem I was haveing was I 
would feather 250 and it always looked too severe.

Mike,

the easiest way to do the "feather" is to make a selection with whatever rough 
guess of a feather - then hit quick mask and Gaussian Blur to your heart's 
content. You can preview what you are doing too. Of course you can do other 
edits too that way - and this is good to know even if you are already on a layer 
with a mask on.
As for burning and dodging in general, all the methods suggested here (leyer 
calculations and  curves with masks) are good - except the stupid burn/dodge 
tool (sorry Mark, I am venting this against Photoshop, nothing personal). You 
can never have fine control over what it does - it's  there for a quick fix, not for 
final production.

And as for a PS tip section here - unless it was specific to bw, forget it - it 
would be the bottomless pit. There are other groups, better suited  for that, 
IMO.

Antonis