| Author | Message | ||
     Norman Koren Unregistered guest |
I just put up a set of four tutorials on Picture Window Pro-- a major addition to my site and to the literature on PW. I plan to eventually incorporate the material into a book on making fine prints. The tutorials consist of an introduction and pages on masks, hand-coloring, and an example of editing an image. These pages contain a lot more detail than I've previously had on my site. They're still a bit rough. I plan to keep editing for about a week, then put up links. In the meantime, I would appreciate feedback and suggestions. Gotta catch those errors and omissions. The Introduction page is on http://www.normankoren.com/PWP_intro.html It has links to the other pages. I'll probably add a few more pages in the next few months. | ||
| Peter A. Stokes Unregistered guest |
Hello Norman, Your web pages are very informative, thanks. The combination of Picture Window Pro at under $100, the Picture Window white papers found on the DL-C web site, and resources such as that found on your Web pages make for a very interesting and productive digital darkroom experience. Regards, Peter | ||
| Dave Colicchio Unregistered guest |
Norman, I would also like to publically acknowledge the usefullnes of your site. I don't think I could have set up my digital darkroom without your well written tutorials. thank you much, dave | ||
| Edward Richards Unregistered guest |
I think a book bundle with a PWP trial on CD, your materials, and some of Jonathans on the CD would be great package to introduce folks to both PWP and digital darkroom work. You two should get together on this. | ||
| Anonymous |
I would rather see the book bundle published on paper as a real paperback then on a CD. Perhaps the CD included in the book could be used for practice examples. | ||
| Edward Richards Unregistered guest |
I meant a paper book with a CD with PWP on it included with the book. | ||
| Jonathan Sachs Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 372 Registered: 08-2002 |
Granted that most people prefer paper books, you should be aware that for short run publications, especially if they include color illustrations, it costs at least 10 times as much to produce a printed book as a CD, and the CD can contain a lot more information and is much easier to update. Compared to publishing on CD, this can make the cost of a book that targets a limited audience prohibitive or make the entire project unprofitable. Jonathan Sachs Digital Light & Color | ||
| Richard de Garis New member Username: Rdegaris Post Number: 13 Registered: 10-2002 |
Jonathan, That's okay, I am certainly happy to print out my own manual - as I have done with PWP already. I would make one small(?) request, though. Can the electronic manual be formatted with smaller font sizes and for portrait viewing i.e. a bit more like a published manual? My print came out in landscape form, and even with double sided print selected, the result is telephone directory thick. | ||
| Jonathan Sachs Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 380 Registered: 08-2002 |
For the current manual, there are some inexpensive programs such as FinePrint and ClickBook that can print several pages per sheet, double sided. At 8 pages per sheet of paper the size gets a lot more reasonable. The next version of the manual will be formatted to make it easier to print directly. Jonathan Sachs Digital Light & Color | ||
| Norman Koren Unregistered guest |
I'm working on a book based on my Making fine prints... series and the tutorials, but it's going slowly. I've discovered I like writing for the Web more than for writing for publication. But I'm going to go through the process of getting it published. The reasons: People still like books and still purchase them. Amazon, B&N and Borders aren't suffering. Even though I'm having fun with the web pages, I'm looking to make a little money, and I'm convinced that writing a book is the way. It could lead to teaching workshops, etc. It can also reach a large and important audience missed by the website-- and, hopefully, increase PW Pro's market share. The next step is to conquer my writer's block... | ||
| Keith Ross-Jones Unregistered guest |
Here is another method of reaching the same result if you have a scanner which I believe should give better results. 1. Scan the image twice, one scan exposed for the light areas and the other exposed for the dark areas. 2. Make a mask as described by Norman Koren. 3. Use the Composite transformation with the Blend option and the mask to blend the two images so that the resulting image has correctly exposed dark and light areas from the corresponding input images. The effect should be similar but I believe you will get better image detail due to scanning the same image at different exposures thereby extracting more image detail from the original. This would probably work best with film scanners. Comments anyone? | ||
| B. A. Franklin New member Username: Icthruu Post Number: 2 Registered: 03-2003 |
Norman Koren, Thanks for the great tutorials on PWP Pro. I found them most helpful B. A. Franklin | ||
| Alice Unregistered guest |
One of the many things I like about PWP is that the tutorial (and other documentation) is only one column wide. Further, the tutorial page fits on a screen easily. That makes it very convenient to read about and complete each step without needing to scroll within the page. I hope you continue to produce easy to read documentation for on-screen viewing(especially compared to all too common multi-column, 8 1/2" x 11" pdf documents). Thanks, Alice |
