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Digital Negatives: Using Photoshop to Create Digital Negatives for Silver and Alternative Process Printing | 
 enlarge | Authors: Brad Hinkel, Ron Reeder
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
List Price: $38.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 113738
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0240808541
Dewey Decimal Number: 771.430285
EAN: 9780240808543
ASIN: 0240808541
Publication Date: November 14, 2006
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Product 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.
*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.
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 It is OK June 7, 2008
I've used Mark Nelson's technique with some success, but wanted to try something to give me more control. I found the concepts pretty straight forward, but the basis approach was very similar to Mark Nelson's e-book. If you want to try digital negatives, this book or Precision Digital negatives from Mark Nelson directly can get you started.
 Not all that is promised December 28, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I selected this book, rather than that by Burkholder - the master, because it was a more current print, and had more up to date hardware information. Most importantly, it promised support from a unique website. The website does not work. I feel that the book is offered under false promise. No doubt, the book is very useful - but if I pay for a burger with cheese, I expect a burger with cheese. And by the way, the editing is quite poor - many typos escaped the proofreader (if there was one).
 Highly recommended to all photographic printmakers! June 14, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Dan Burkholder gets the credit for introducing digital negatives for contact printing processes several years ago, but it is Ron Reeder and Brad Hinkle who have finally worked out a system that produces extremely repeatable results. Now photographers everywhere can easily harness the power of Photoshop to create stunning prints using just about any contact printing process available. I have personally used this book to create salted-paper prints, van dykes, cyanotypes, and silver gelatin prints with pleasing results.
I teach alternative processes year round in Denver, Colorado, and as any instructor knows, the easiest way to hook a student on something new is the accessibility of the process. Even my darkroom shy students are taking notice of the work a small handful of pioneering students are experimenting with at our school using this excellent text. One student exclaimed to me just last week "this book will save the darkroom".
If you are looking for a system to harness the power of Photoshop with the beauty of a hand-crafted print, this is the best resource available!
AT LAST! a book about digitnal negative making... that is about making digital negatives. May 28, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book has been a long time coming. after spending countless hours on my own, then experimenting with another well known book by dan burkholder (who has some good ideas but ultimately is outdated and there are really only a few pages that deal with 'inkjet negative' making.) this book has answered many of my long standing questions of how to create your own curve for output and then be able to check your work for accuracy. to many resources tell you to buy one specific printer (which by the time the book is printed has been discontinued), one specific ink, and one specific printing media (OHP was discontinued by its manufacturer), and if you do not then their cookie cutter curve will not work exaclty correct.
so thank the authors for sharing this information in a very down to earth way. it has opened a new door in photo printing for the masses.
No website May 15, 2007
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
The website is not accessible, last two days. There is no contact info to resolve this major issue. To obtain critical information and instuctions thoughout the book the website is the only source. I am inclined to give a 4-5 star rating for the book if it had information that was advertised.
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