Digital BW, The Print

on 11/23/2001 2:12 AM, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com at
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> From: "Mark Tucker" <mark@...>
> Subject: Re: black print border
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Bernie Ess"
> <albatros.bee@w...> wrote:
>> Does anyone know a plug- in or another way to imitate/emulate
> the slightly irregular black border that is tyoically around black
> and white prints that come out of the darkroom?
> 
> Bernard,
> Caution -- you are seriously messing with your photo karma if
> you go using one of the fake-black-border software programs.
> This is dangerous territory. Cartier-Bresson is not dead yet, but
> still his ghost will rise to haunt you. The ghost is haunting
> anyone who's not using a Leica and Tri-X and traditional
> darkroom anyway, but if you cross that fake-black-border line, all
> bets are off as to the repercussions.
> 
> I'm sure you experienced a bit of that similar ghost the first time
> you used the clone tool to put a third eyeball in the middle of
> someone's forehead; but the black border ghost is much more
> angry.
> 
> Beware. You're on thin ice now.
> 
> .

Bernard,

Also beware, by the time someone has gone through the trouble to write
software for making the "film borders" it must already be cliché.

I hear from my fashion advisors that really thin black lines, (very
technical) are in next year.  Personally I like the curvy cut that was last
in the  1950's
 
-Bruce

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