michaelwg

Previous post addendum! FYI I am not exactly what you might describe as being a Newbie, I am an Adobe Refugee. I have used Photoshop for years.Adobe will go the way of Kodak. They are arrogant non communicative and complacent. I must admit that Inow only use it for Bruce Brown’s Image Processor. Michael

Several years ago virtually at the point when Adobe bought and shutdown Macromedia Freehand, I had, with the assistance of my son, worked out how to generate pseudo-highlights using fractals. At the time I was working with archival images where the Ektachrome slides had either been underexposed or had degraded where the highlights were either blown or lost. I made a series of new slides which I bracketed from the correct exposure to progressive stages of being blown out. What I discovered was that from the first two overexposed images (half a stop, and a whole stop) it was possible to regenerate the lost highlights from the edges of the adjacent pixels. In comparison to the master slide it was impossible to see any difference between it and the first level ‘overblown’ test sample and only just detectable in the one-stop sample. Would such a routine be possible to offer as a plugin? It would be an extremely useful add-on for conservators and archivists with Important photographic colour transparencies in their collections.

Dear Affinity, I have been involved in photography and photographic publishing (for as long as I do not with to remember). I initially used Quark and then In Design. Because I work intensively for short periods of time I do not wish to use any longer the Adobe subscription system. There are two features which I would find very attractive and that would be to incorporate editable footnote / endnote facilities and perhaps, (for the moment asking quite a lot) a page imposition system which Quark do as a clunky, seriously expensive add on. They were and still remain an arrogant organisation only interested in serving larger publishing organisations and from some from my colleagues I have been informed "that the Leopard has not changed its spots". michaelwg