Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "antonisphoto" 
<antonisphoto@y...> wrote:
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).


Are you serious that you don't use the Burn/Dodge tool? For 
real? I use them both, just like I used the 
coat-hanger-with-taped-on-cardboard and 
illustration-board-with-crude-hole-cut-out-of-it in the wet 
darkroom. I seriously can't imagine how you'd work any other 
way, unless you had about a day and a half to work on each 
image. Every single one of my pictures is done that way. And I 
don't mean a little bit; I mean a lot.

You guys are getting too techie on me. All these fancy layering 
methods, and you're not even working on the real image -- you're 
working on another layer! Where has the integrity gone? How 
can you shave in the morning? You need a little more Mark 
Tucker in your life, and a little less CarolynFrayn/Paul Roark!

All this exacting technique, and you've let this thread progress 
this far without correcting the Subject Line? You gotta practice 
what you preach...

-Mark Tucker
Author: "Photoshop for Losers"