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November 10, 2008
The Nikonians On Location #41 - Pragmatic Printing
Seeing your images on print can be very rewarding, and even though many photographers never make prints any more, others say that it ain't a real picture until it's printed.
Show Notes: November 10, 2008
On Location's Martin Joergensen falls somewhere in the category "Is OK with images on a screen, but loves a great print". This week he takes his HP B8850 pigment based A3/13x19" printer through the paces and introduces you to his way of printing - unsophisticated but with great results.
The sound file:
- Outdoors in poor weather
- Selecting images
- Preparing the printer
- Preparing pictures for print
- Printing
- Bye
Video supplement:
The slide show is now ready, showing some examples of the images that Martin selected to print and discussing briefly how to prepare them.
Click here to view Nikonians On Location Video Supplement #41 (NPC-OLV-2008-11-10; 7:05; flash format)
Music used on today's show:
Days End with John Williams on Magnatune
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Posted by martinj at November 10, 2008 10:00 PM
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Hi Martin,
thanks again for your great podcast!
When you're talking about your workflow I get the feeling that you should definitely think about a software like Aperture, Lightroom, Bibble... Your life would be so much easier - and the number of your images that will end in Photoshop will drop from 100% to 5% I guess.
Both Apple and Adobe offer a trial version. And I'm sure you will never go back :-)
Jens
Posted by: JMCblog 
at November 13, 2008 6:52 PM
Jens,
I have had several workflow-centric image editing programs running, and some of them do have much of what I need and want, but I see two main advantages with Photoshop:
1) I use a lot of layers, layer masks, complex brushes, feathered cut&paste and many more tools, of which very few are available in most of the programs you mention.
2) I know Photoshop in my sleep. I have been using it since version 2 or 3 (with no CS), and the shortcuts, the menus and functions are in my fingers like few other programs.
I have tried most of the other raw-conversion and image editing programs, and always end back in Photoshop.
Martin
Posted by: Martin Joergensen at November 13, 2008 9:46 PM
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