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

Description

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.

 

Digital Negatives
Introduction
Why digital negatives
The advantages of Photoshop
Renewing challenging processes
A simpler wet darkroom
The handmade print
Can prints from a digital negative match a traditional silver print
Thinking beyond mimicking the silver print
1. The Basics of Digital Negatives
Photographic processes are non-linear
Why this has worked well for so many years
Trying to create a linear workflow in the digital world
Correcting for each printing processes
2. Capturing the Optimal Image
Sources from a digital camera
Exposing onto film
Scanning issues
Color or black & white originals
Processing in Photoshop
3. A Basic Workflow for Silver Printing
The Ingredients
Preparing the image
Printing the negative
Exposure
Development
What might go wrong
4. A Basic Workflow for Palladium Printing
The Ingredients
Coating the paper
Preparing the image
Printing the negative
Exposure
Development
What might go wrong
5. Exposure
Your Light Source
Printing the step table
Determining the base exposure
Measuring exposure
6. Creating Correction Curves
Why we need to create individual correction curves
Identifying a good printed step tablet
Scanning the step tablet
Set the End Points
Measuring the data
Making the correction curve
Testing a correction curve
How we track our curves/processes/prints
7. Calibrating the System
Configuring Grey Working Space
Calibrating your monitor
8. About Printers
Working with some specific Printers we have used
- Epson R2400, 2200, C86 (4000, 4800)
Configuring other types of printers
- Determining the best settings for your printer
- Issues regarding printing
- Print Media
9. Notes on Equipment and Workspace
The Wet workspace
Light Sources for exposure
Is Visible light or UV light printing easier?
10. Tuning the Fine Digital Negative Print
Variable Contrast Paper for Silver Printing
Contrast agents for Palladium Printing
11. Manipulatory Miseries
Some common problems, how these arise and how we address them.
12. Platinum over Color Printing
A new process for color images
CMY – K separations
Printing the color separation
Printing the negative
13. Finishing Techniques
Coating the print – wax, varnish, acrylic
Edge treatments
Framing
14. Experimenting with the Unknown
A list of some experiments that we have tried, our results, and some possible next steps for further experimentations. These include: color & cyanotypes, printing with two negatives, gold prints, uranotypes, digitally creating silver darkroom negatives, localized solarization.

描述

數位底片：使用Photoshop創建銀和其他替代印刷的數位底片將傳統攝影印刷與數位技術結合。在Photoshop中準備的數位底片使您可以跳過暗房時間的底片沖洗，直接進行包括銀、鉑和其他“替代”印刷過程在內的各種印刷過程。您將把這視為將技術與傳統照片工藝相結合的機會，從而為您的藝術提供更多時間！過去，想要數位底片的攝影師必須將業務交給實驗室。現在，所有使用Photoshop的用戶都可以將這一實踐納入自己選擇的工作流程中。

目錄

數位底片
介紹
為什麼要使用數位底片
Photoshop的優勢
更新具有挑戰性的工藝
更簡單的濕式暗房
手工印刷
數位底片的印刷是否能與傳統銀印相媲美
1. 數位底片的基礎知識
攝影工藝是非線性的
為什麼這在這麼多年來一直運作良好
在數位世界中嘗試創建線性工作流程
為每個印刷過程進行校正
2. 捕捉最佳圖像
來自數位相機的來源
曝光到底片上
掃描問題
彩色或黑白原件
在Photoshop中處理
3. 銀印的基本工作流程
材料
準備圖像
印刷底片
曝光
沖洗
可能出現的問題
4. 鉑印的基本工作流程
材料
塗佈紙張
準備圖像
印刷底片
曝光
沖洗
可能出現的問題
5. 曝光
您的光源
印刷步驟表
確定基本曝光
測量曝光
6. 創建校正曲線
為什麼我們需要創建個別的校正曲線
識別良好的印刷步驟表
掃描步驟表
設置終點
測量數據
製作校正曲線
測試校正曲線
如何跟踪我們的曲線/工藝/印刷
7. 校準系統
配置灰色工作空間
校準您的顯示器
8. 關於打印機
使用我們使用過的某些特定打印機
- Epson R2400、2200、C86（4000、4800）
配置其他類型的打印機
- 確定您的打印機的最佳設置
- 有關打印的問題
- 打印媒體
9. 設備和工作空間的注意事項
濕式工作空間
曝光的光源
可見光或紫外線光印刷哪個更容易？
10. 調整精細的數位底片印刷
用於銀印的可變對比度紙
鉑印的對比劑
11. 操作困難
一些常見問題，它們是如何產生的以及我們如何解決它們。
12. 彩色鉑印
用於彩色圖像的新工藝
CMY-K分離
印刷彩色分離
印刷底片
13. 完成技術
塗佈印刷品-蠟、清漆、丙烯酸
邊緣處理
裝裱
14. 對未知進行實驗
一些未知領域的列表