Digital BW, The Print

> In order to conserve paper, especially if you're using a premium
> priced product like Photo Rag, how can I best do "test strips" in PS ?
>
> For those who did not work in a conventional darkroom, test strips
> are multiple exposure strips made on a single sheet of paper(to
> compare subtle increments of exposure & save wasting entire sheets.
>
> Obviously the issue isn't exposure here but I thought there must be a
> way of applying various differences, perhaps on separate layers, and
> having them side by side on a sheet? Or, perhaps there is a way of
> utilizing off cuts from larger sheets, & printing a portion of the
> image.
>
> Anyway, if you're working in some such way, I'd be interested in
> hearing your method/s
> thanks
> Frankg
>

From: "frankg_photo" <frank@...>
Subject: [Digital BW] "Test Strips" - how are you doing them ?


> In order to conserve paper, especially if you're using a premium
> priced product like Photo Rag, how can I best do "test strips" in PS
?
>
Frank,  I use QImagePro from http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/

You can use one of the premade templates or make up a custom one and
save it. You do not have to resize your original PS file - QImage does
the resizing for you. The interface isn't terrible intuitive but
everything is simple once you get the basic concept. There is a very
helpful Yahoo Group to answer questions.

Before I started using QImage, I used Photoshop, made up a new
document, copied each version to the new doc on a new layer...it was
time consuming ...but did work after a fashion. The process probably
could have been automated from within Photoshop but I discovered
QImage and the rest was history.

Good luck

Linda

From: "frankg_photo" <frank@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 3:10 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] "Test Strips" - how are you doing them ?


> In order to conserve paper, especially if you're using a premium
> priced product like Photo Rag, how can I best do "test strips" in PS ?
>
> For those who did not work in a conventional darkroom, test strips
> are multiple exposure strips made on a single sheet of paper(to
> compare subtle increments of exposure & save wasting entire sheets.
>
> Obviously the issue isn't exposure here but I thought there must be a
> way of applying various differences, perhaps on separate layers, and
> having them side by side on a sheet? Or, perhaps there is a way of
> utilizing off cuts from larger sheets, & printing a portion of the
> image.
>
> Anyway, if you're working in some such way, I'd be interested in
> hearing your method/s

Frank,

My first reaction is that if you have a decent Dot Gain curve for use in
View>Proof Setup you don't really need to do test strips which saves even
more paper.

See:

Matching Your Monitor view to Your Prints.pdf

in folder:

Files > Image processing

Martin Wesley