Easy Dodge & Burn Photoshop Plugin Easy Dodge & Burn is a small lightweight Photoshop plugin designed to make the traditional Photoshop dodge and burning tools more accessible and increase your editing productivity. Whilst the plugin offers a small number of controls, it brings all the tools into a single panel which are required when […]
The Digital Zone System Photoshop Plugin is a small light weight extension panel giving you access to the Zone System tools which have been designed to help with your black and white photography editing. The plugin interface is clean and does not include any “bells or whistles” which can lead to distraction. Each set of tools work […]
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Diafine is an extremely durable, two-bath ultra-fine grain film developer with high speed yield. Diafine can be used in a wide range of temperatures with a uniform development time for films with differing sensitivities. I have used Diafine on and off for some time and for certain situations, I find it to be a very […]
In a previous article, I demonstrated how to install Lightroom Profiles. Before Adobe introduced Profiles, we used to rely on Presets to speed up our editing workflow. One of the main issues with presets is that they made adjustments tot he various sliders and prevented us from applying further adjustments to those sliders without overwriting […]
In Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe have made the profiles more discoverable by changing how they are accessed. In Lightroom Classic CC and Adobe Camera Raw, the profiles have been moved from the Camera Calibration panel to the Basic panel at the top of the edit panel. Their capabilities have also been exdended with six brand […]
Black & White Printing Photoshop Curves When printing black and white photographs with an Epson Printer, one of the best choices you can make is to use the Advanced Black and White mode (ABW) mode. The Epson Advanced Black and White driver in my opinion gives deeper blacks, is more linear, produces less bronzing and […]
What Scan Resolution Should I Scan My Negatives At ? Scanning resolution is probably one of the first dilemmas people are faced with when they first start out scanning negatives. Their first reaction is to scan them at the highest values available in the scanning software thinking they are going to achieve the best scan. In […]
The SilverFast Black and White Scanning Workflow After spending many hours learning how to get the most from the analog to digital conversion form the equipment I have, I thought it would be a good idea to share this information via a mini video series. I use a simple but effective black and white scanning workflow which produce […]
