Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pr_roark" <pr_roark@...> wrote:
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> What this software package seems to do, judging just from it's web page, looks a lot like what good printers have been doing for years.  I continue to think that mastering Photoshop as a toolset is a better approach than the plethora of software solutions, but each to his/her own.  These canned software solutions remind me of the workshops where some people want to know where the "Ansel Adams" button is.  Good printing in the digital era does require some software, but it remains fundamentally, in my view, an aesthetic. 

I agree Paul, it is an aesthetic; taste and vision. Perhaps George has distilled his aesthetic to a formula?

I checked it out with the demo. It appears to work best on a "standard" landscape; darkening the sky, opening up the shadows, doing some large diameter sharpening (perhaps in LAB) and burning the edges. I applied it to 20 of my Landscapes. On most, it ruined them but on 2 of the 20 images, I liked it. I did use edit/fade to back it off, to 20% and 10% but I'll keep the result. 

It appears to be a tool that can occasionally help. I'll buy it.

Lynn