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 negatives-getting 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.

Digital Negatives: Using Photoshop to Create Digital Negatives for Silver and Alternative Process Printing

Arts & Photography

Hinkel, Brad

Reeder, Ron

Photography & Video

Focal Press

Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP: Demystifying QTR for Photographers and Printmakers (Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography)

Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP is a text that fully explores how the QuadToneRIP printer driver can be used to make expert digital negatives. The book takes a comprehensive, Òunder-the-hoodÓ look at how Roy Harrington’s QTR printer driver can be adapted for use by artists in several different creative practice areas. The text is written from the Mac/Photoshop point of view. 
The book is divided into three parts. Part One is a step-by-step how-to section that will appeal to both beginning and more advanced practitioners. Part One includes quickstart guides or summary sheets for beginning students who want to jump into using QTR before understanding all of its functional components. Part Two addresses dimroom, darkroom, and printmaking practices, walking the reader through brief workflows from negative to print for lithium palladium, gum bichromate, cyanotype, salted paper, kallitype, silver gelatin and polymer photogravure, with a sample profile for each. It also includes an introduction to a new software iteration of QTR: QuickCurve-DN (QCDN). Part Three is devoted to contemporary practitioners who explain how they use QTR in their creative practice. 
The book includes: 
A list of supplies and software needed 
A summary QTR glossary with a simple explanation of how each function works 
A sample walk-through to create a QTR profile from start to finish 
How to linearize profiles with simple to more exacting tools 
A visual guide to modifying functions 
Quickstart guides for many of the workflows 
Instructions for crafting monochrome, duotone, tricolor, and quadcolor negatives 
Instructions for using QTR to print silver gelatin in the darkroom 
Instructions for using QTR to print alternative processes in the dimroom 
Instructions for using QTR to print polymer photogravure in the printmaking room 
Introductory chapter to QuickCurve-DN software 
Troubleshooting common QTR problems 
Generic starter profiles for processes discussed 
Contemporary artists: their work and QTR process. 
Learning how to craft expert digital negatives can be a bit overwhelming at the outset. Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP makes the process as user-friendly as possible. Like other books in the series, Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP is thoroughly comprehensive, accessible to different levels of learner, and illustrative of the contemporary arts.

Anderson, Christina

Graphic Design

Routledge

A complete manual for making high quality digital negatives for contact printing on alternative photographic processes. Describes two different methods, one using the Epson printer driver and the other using the Quadtone RIP.

Digital Negatives for palladium and other alternative processes

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