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lightmuncher
Joined: 23 Jul 2012
Posts: 2
Location: Unfortunately - Lincolshire
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 Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:20 am Post subject: Printing question |
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I hope I am in the right section here? I hope I can put this in a readable fashion as my head is full of medication. But I need a question or a way reduce my printing costs on ink and paper. Back in the old days I used a darkroom method that enabled me to split an image into sections with different exposures on the paper. I did this with a piece of card under the enlarger giving (this is an example) say 2 seconds differences of exposure. When developed in its chemical bath I could see what the correct exposure would be for that image and paper. The difficulty I am having is that if I calibrate my monitor to the printer, my monitor is far too dark to work with. And of course each paper will give different results.
I don't have the ability to do that process as far as I know in PS. Is there a way I can have small images, say 4 on an A4 sheet with different brightness values; plus and minus? The values could be set at 10 points and this would give me a better idea where to set my settings. Not only brightness but the next one could be saturation. If this could be done, could it be done as a script or an action? This could be done as I did before into strips or could be done by making 4 of the images automatically small allowing me to vary the brightness etc. I would be open to suggestions here and I am sure it would be valuable to you as well. I have written to all the companies that produce printers and as well as PS and they have not responded to my request as it would mean they would lose revenue. Well I am losing revenue as I have a very tight budget not being able to work.
So any ideas. I know its a lot to take in and I might have not put the idea across correctly, but you may have the gist and may have some ideas. |
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Frank1263
Joined: 09 May 2012
Posts: 221
Location: Spain
PS Version: CS6
OS: Windows 7
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lightmuncher
Joined: 23 Jul 2012
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Location: Unfortunately - Lincolshire
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It would be nice to pay for a course, but I have NO finances now. My wife nearly divorced me when she found out I bought CS5! As that should have paid for our bills. So I am looking for information that will help. And I have yet t o come across what I want. That is why I don't want to waste paper and ink. That will save my pocket and a frying pan across my head! I live on over 200mg morphine a day and also on top of that I am having to take diazopan to stop me spasms in the esophagus . But I can't see if you know how these things work why my request can't be achieved. I would have thought it a basic element to assessing what is the better print. |
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