Digital BW, The Print

I agree Tyler... as for the haloing, perhaps the interface could have an advanced mode.  PerceptTool appears to do a huge blur on the whole image and then use this as some sort of alpha channel.  Perhaps in an advanced mode you could control the degree of blur.

(My favorite sharpening app, FocalBlade, has a fantastic interface for adjusting the mask.)

Ed


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley" <tyler@...> wrote:
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "George DeWolfe" <dewolfe04679@> wrote:
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> > Morning everybody
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> > I just wanted to thank all those of you on this particular forum, which is so important to B&W Printing, for looking at the new B&W Printing book and PercepTool...
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> I have to say, after trying the demo on a few scans of difficult B&W images, I was impressed. It moved things in a direction I would have gone anyway, with a bit less hairpulling, even though I would probably continue to finesse from there. My only problem with it was some haloing, but those of us working with complex masking, and/or HDR, are used to dealing with this kind of thing...
> I think many would find this useful. Sure you can get to a similar place with normal tools, but there's nothing wrong with simplifying workflow, which in and of itself gets less and less fascinating over the years, in favor of the work itself.
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> I think people should try the free demo if curious, it's a valid printmaker tool, developed by a printmaker and artist. You'll still have plenty of work and decisions to make yourself.
> Tyler
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