Digital BW, The Print

marktuckerdotcom wrote:

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> (For you young whippersnappers, Russell was one of the early
> cornerstones of Photoshop).
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Geez!  You are making me feel really old.. Back to the days when even 
16mB of Memory was something reserved for top level PhotoShop gurus at 
pre-press bureaus...

Back when the cloud filter was a pretty neat new idea and the original 
software engineers of PhotoShop would give free lectures for Adobe at 
trade shows.. 

Funny, I was just thinking about how a list like this might have been b4 
digital..  Imagine the arguments on getting rid of uneven tones in 
"toned" prints, the rights and wrongs of fixing, spotting "the right 
way"... aggghhhhh!  Just goes to show how printing a bordeless 8 x10 in 
4 minutes, after perfecting it in PhotoShop, has given us the space to 
argue over arcania like metamerism and gasfastness (I am in no way 
undermining the importance of these issues -- just trying to do as I do 
every so oftenn, step back for a second and gain some perspective)

Keith