From develop to print
Like every photo ever, the digital one has its negative, too.
Ane like every negative, also the digital negative must be developed.
Develop (and Post Production) are different from “photoretouch”.
In Develop, only what is already registered come to print, no other.
During the develop path, color control and management are needed in every step, to print something that have a sense.
Currrently I don’t shoot in film anymore, and all my photos need a digital production.
But from several years (at least from 2001) all my slides had the same treatment, from scanning to print.
I use daily a single software for the files develop and browsing, plus another for the final pre-printing management until the (home) print.
I had acheived some stitching test, too.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
A speed and powerful software to develop the RAW files. Thousands photos are managed in the same time.
Every JPG or other bitmap format is managed like a RAW.
Adobe Photoshop CS5
“The” classic software to do all it’s needed until the print or publication. Very difficult to use, but indispensable.
Hugin OsX
A free stitching software.
Zoomflyer EZ
To see the biggest and detailed photos in the web.
Every PC user know how difficult can be the true color vision and reproduction.
It depends by a good monitor, a good printer but, especially, by a correct calibration and profilation for both devices.
Calibration is the only way to print the colors I want, and the photo I’ve in my mind.
LaCie 319
LCD monitor, with internal LUT, to have the true colors on every brightness.
With its own calibrator, of course.
Epson Stylus R2400
A3+ printer. Its eight colors (and especially its three grays) are able to print high-level BW photos and color print.
K3 inks are the best for BW and portrait, and photos with soft and bright colors.
…And my MacBook Pro has the responsability to manage all.
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