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Title: Digital Negatives: Using Photoshop to Create Digital Negatives for Silver and Alternative Process Printing
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Manufacturer: Focal Press
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| Digital Negatives: Using Photoshop to Create Digital Negatives for Silver and Alternative Process Printing by Focal Press Not all that is promised | | I selected this book, rather than that by Burkholder - the master, because it was a more current print, and had more up to date hardware information. Most importantly, it promised support from a unique website. The website does not work. I feel that the book is offered under false promise. No doubt, the book is very useful - but if I pay for a burger with cheese, I expect a burger with cheese. And by the way, the editing is quite poor - many typos escaped the proofreader (if there was one). | | Digital Negatives: Using Photoshop to Create Digital Negatives for Silver and Alternative Process Printing by Focal Press Highly recommended to all photographic printmakers! | Dan Burkholder gets the credit for introducing digital negatives for contact printing processes several years ago, but it is Ron Reeder and Brad Hinkle who have finally worked out a system that produces extremely repeatable results. Now photographers everywhere can easily harness the power of Photoshop to create stunning prints using just about any contact printing process available. I have personally used this book to create salted-paper prints, van dykes, cyanotypes, and silver gelatin prints with pleasing results.
I teach alternative processes year round in Denver, Colorado, and as any instructor knows, the easiest way to hook a student on something new is the accessibility of the process. Even my darkroom shy students are taking notice of the work a small handful of pioneering students are experimenting with at our school using this excellent text. One student exclaimed to me just last week "this book will save the darkroom".
If you are looking for a system to harness the power of Photoshop with the beauty of a hand-crafted print, this is the best resource available! | | Digital Negatives: Using Photoshop to Create Digital Negatives for Silver and Alternative Process Printing by Focal Press AT LAST! a book about digitnal negative making... that is about making digital negatives. | This book has been a long time coming. after spending countless hours on my own, then experimenting with another well known book by dan burkholder (who has some good ideas but ultimately is outdated and there are really only a few pages that deal with 'inkjet negative' making.) this book has answered many of my long standing questions of how to create your own curve for output and then be able to check your work for accuracy. to many resources tell you to buy one specific printer (which by the time the book is printed has been discontinued), one specific ink, and one specific printing media (OHP was discontinued by its manufacturer), and if you do not then their cookie cutter curve will not work exaclty correct.
so thank the authors for sharing this information in a very down to earth way. it has opened a new door in photo printing for the masses. | | Digital Negatives: Using Photoshop to Create Digital Negatives for Silver and Alternative Process Printing by Focal Press No website | | The website is not accessible, last two days. There is no contact info to resolve this major issue. To obtain critical information and instuctions thoughout the book the website is the only source. I am inclined to give a 4-5 star rating for the book if it had information that was advertised. | | Digital Negatives: Using Photoshop to Create Digital Negatives for Silver and Alternative Process Printing by Focal Press From | The last few years have seen alternative photographic processes grow in use. From the street studios in Providence to the booming gallery scene in Chelsea, hand-coated emulsions are a popular counter to the photographic digital revolution.
Brad Henkel and Ron Reeder have deftly organized the work flow necessary to produce the high quality large format negtaives necessary for many of these processes. Their "Digital Negatives.." provides clear simple instructions (along with PhotoShop curves and calibration step wedges at their [...]) for the artist who wants to launch quickly with minimal theory. The book also has excellent detail for those who seek more (The Quadtone RIP profile instruction is top quality).
I found their explanation of calibrating PhotoShop curves to print media very clear and easy to practice. The two authors have expanded on the groundbreaking work of Dan Burkholder (Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing) and Mark I. Nelson's "Precision Digital Negatives", but have kept their processes open and very approachable. Key screen flows are presented for both the Mac and PC environments.
The book also includes a number of fine art and practical process illustrations (How about a Becquerel contact Daguerreotype from a D1x RAW file!). I would strongly recommend this book for the alternative process artist who is ready to move from litho film and pyro developer to digtial contact negative production.
In addition to your computer, you will need a scanner and good quality inkjet printer, as well as Photoshop CS, to get started.
NWG 3-31-07 | | Digital Negatives: Using Photoshop to Create Digital Negatives for Silver and Alternative Process Printing by Focal Press Product Description | Digital Negatives: Using Photoshop to Create Digital Negatives for Silver and Alternative
Process Printing bridges the world of traditional photographic printing with digital technology. A digital negative, prepared in Photoshop, allows you to skip the dark room time developing the negativesgetting straight to a variety of printing processes including silver, platinum, and a host of other alternative processes. You will see this as an opportunity to mix technology with traditional photo processes resulting in more time for your art! In the recent past, photographers that wanted digital negatives had to take their business to labs. Now all of you Photoshop users can incorporate this practice into your workflow of choice.
*Easy, quick start recommendations for specific supplies and instructions for making your first print quickly without all the details of calibrating digital negatives.
·Offers expert instruction for the more advanced; much of the book will be focused on how to calibrate digital negatives, configure a digital darkroom, and fine tune prints from digital negatives
·Adventurous, experimental techniques take printing using alternative processes into new options including toning, multiple printing, printing with ink and platinum, plus others. |
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