Doug, I'm going to have you over for diner or something sometime soon so you can fix my printing ineptitude. I can't seem to get a decent print more than 1/3 of the time out of my set-up with XP/Elements/and my Epson 925.
CW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax Discuss" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 1:29 AM Subject: Printing Digital Photos > Howdy, folks, > > Well, today, I had my first real experience printing digital photos > captured on digital. I'm using the same Epson Stylus Photo 820 that > I've been using the last several years, and I'm still on Photoshop 7. > My system is well enough color-calibrated that I don't think twice about > whether the print will match what I saw on screen. That's largely luck > or something, but that's another story. > > The story is that for irrelevant reasons, I've been called upon to > generate 8" x 10" prints from some photos I shot with the *ist D. I > suddenly realized a few minutes ago that this was the first set of > prints I'd made from images captured directly to digital. > > In the past, I've done a lot of capturing and printing of digital > images, but it was always in workflows mediated by film. Shoot on film. > Scan to digital. Digital workflow from there to prints. > > I've been scanning the film at 4000 ppi, and spending untold hours of > angst dealing with "Nyquist noise" ("grain aliasing"). I'm used to > having to dink with the levels extensively, or resort to curves a lot of > the time, nontrivial amounts of "spotting" for dust and such. I'm used > to having to apply some Gaussian Blur before the Unsharp Mask will do > what it ought to do. > > All I can say is "WOW!". Generating good to excellent prints took about > 90 seconds each ... load in PS, crop, 15 seconds in levels, set image > size for print size, print ... about 0.01 of the time I'm used to doing > to get a decent print of a film image scanned to digital. "WOW!" > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.14.13/546 - Release Date: > 11/22/2006 9:01 AM > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
