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1 year ago

Fine Art Digital Workflow

Fine Art Digital Printing Workflow It's been a month since my last posting. I am product manager for Pixel Genius Photokit Sharpener 2.0 and have been burning the midnight oil completing the user's manual. We released the plugin last week to rave reviews. For those interested in learning more about this plugin I've included a link to our site: PK Sharpener 2.0  Global Adjustments in [...]

1 year ago

Foundational Adjustments in Photoshop

FOUNDATIONAL ADJUSTMENTS IN PHOTOSHOP In last weeks post I outlined the steps I take in Lightroom/ACR as part of my Fine Art Digital Workflow. With the “heavy lifting” done in RAW format the image is exported to Photoshop as a 16 bit, ProPhoto Smart Object. This is where the final adjustments and polish takes place. Although we have a Smart Object as a “background” I try to [...]

1 year ago

Adobe announces a solution to the "No Color Management" problem!

Adobe has addresed the "No Color Management" problem with the release of the "Adobe Color Printer Utility" which allows the printing of TIFFs with no color management (and no scaling) for the purposes of generating color profiles. The "No Color Management" option was dropped in CS5 and made it extremely difficult to print an appropriate color chart for the creation of accurate ICC printer [...]

1 year ago

Foundational Adjustments in Lightroom

FOUNDATIONAL ADJUSTMENTS IN LIGHTROOM / ACR In my last post I outlined an approach to analyzing your image prior to proceeding with active optimization. Once you have an overall strategy in mind, how you go about implementing your adjustments is crucial to optimal results. This is a graphic representation of the steps I follow to bring out the best in my images. • FOUNDATIONAL: Adjust large [...]

1 year ago

Gallery: Where to Start: Fine Art Digital Workflow

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Where to Start: A Sense of Destination Last week’s post (Realize Your Vision) outlined the importance of a structured workflow in Fine Art Image Optimization. I illustrated the concept of a well-designed Layer Stack to introduce the idea of image optimization being a process of refinement.  However, prior to embarking on actual image adjustments, it is important to know where [...]

1 year ago

Realize Your Vision: Fine Art Digital Workflow

Welcome to my first post on Pixiq! Photography has been a lifelong passion.  In 1989 I moved out of the traditional darkroom and into the digital darkroom. I’ve spent the last 20 years working with hundreds of photographers from around the world. I’ve printed for the famous, the infamous and the not so famous. Not knowing when a client might change their mind reinforced the [...]

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