Digital BW, The Print

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sanders-Herring 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 10:20 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: black print border



  > 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,
  If you're willing to tempt the Photo
  Gods(ignoring Mark's warning) and come over to
  the Dark Side as I have, here's what works for
  me. 
  Like you, I've always liked the rough edge you
  can in the darkroom. It seems like the ones I've
  seen from the plug-ins look contrived and
  unnatural. What I did was scanned a silver print
  with an edge that I liked. Then in PhotoShop I
  dragged my new image onto the one with the good
  edge, sized it to fit and blended the two with a
  layer mask. Simple and easy. 
  I recently had a few prints in a group show at a
  local gallery that used this technique. Everyone
  assumed they were silver prints. (OK, Mark, so
  maybe I won't get into Photo Purist Heaven, but
  do I get points for still using Tri-X? )

  Alan



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