Digital Light & Color

At the risk of suggesting the obvious, if the lab is not willing to do that, put convert psd tif into a search engine. It will return links to several conversion programs.

Happy to see what you can do with it, DEN, and of course how you do it.

Masking by color range is difficult for me; it seems extremely sensitive to mouse travel. Perhaps I'll get the knack of it some day.

Would the technique suggested by Andy Blankertz belong on Robert's list? http://www.dl-c.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=5234&post=27134#POST27134 Here is a slightly refined version I often use (I have PWP5): Extract luminance or HSL-L channel. Blur it high-pass, typically radius 3 to 5. Do a si...

I've used the mail order print service at Adoramapix.com a few times. You might want to try them when you can wait for prints in the mail, because you can submit files as TIFs or JPGs up to 60 MB. Adorama takes sRGB, and you have three options: instruct them auto-correct or not auto-correct, and in ...

Thank you for a great tutorial: --for teaching the Brightness Curve-RGB and something it does that Color Curve transform does not. Working mostly with the latter's HSL-L, I was thrown off by the fact that Color Curve offers separate R, G, and B curves but not a combined one. --for teaching how to us...

DEN's hint about midtone color cast ("gray balance"?) in the thread on Color Temperature in Color Balance Transform ( http://www.dl-c.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=268 ) was a mind-blower, to use a term that is so twentieth century. I am trying "gray balance" as a way to brig...

Thanks, den! Use of the brightness curve in mask-making was a mystery, but your example illuminated the topic (excuse pun). Other variants follow, such as: start with diagonal brightness curve, flip it by moving left point up and right point down, create intermediate points and stress the line into ...

Can't speak to your Color question, but wanted to ask if you regard this technique as an equivalent: A. Mask the dark areas 1. Use Brightness, stair step curve a. create a new point on the axis near the left side b. slide the point at the bottom left corner up to the top this masks the dark areas c....

I downloaded one of the those dPreview files, too; unZIPped it to L1090229.DNG -- and got a black screen. I tried Raw Therapee; it produced a black screen, too. I ran the file through Adobe DNG converter, getting a smaller DNG file. PWP and RT produced black screens again. But dPreview forum posts t...

I am a novice learning how to take and process digital photos, aiming for image quality (grounded in realism, which is not literal naturalism.) A big reason I chose PWP is that a user gets a good idea (with study of the scattered documentation!) of how a step in the workflow changes the image data a...