I totally agree. It's also one reason why I continue to struggle with
digital imaging. It requires a skillset and toolset which is quite
different than a film-based system.
On Friday, December 13, 2013, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Agreed. One of my gurus has a fixation on continuous tone images that
> borders on psychosis. <g> Almost all of his prints feature, more than
> anything else, continuous tones that flow seamlessly from color to color,
> light to dark, dark to light. On a 40x60 print, it's, well, extremely
> agreeable.
>
> Which is to say, processing wise, that to make agreeable prints, one must
> pay attention to tonal qualities, gradations, etc. That's why the more bits
> when processing, the better. FWIW, LR5 and I believe some earlier versions,
> supply check boxes in the Print module for 16-bit output. This makes
> achieving tonal "perfection" much easier.
>
>
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