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Sharkey

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  1. Looks like he was a clever chap. As for my ignorance of him and his work. Only been using computers for 15 years and no interest in where they come from, even now. Might as well ask me who invented the screw driver - I use one but not a clue as to who thought the idea up. Probably Archimedes Anyway at one time I was quite an expert in my field but got tired, opened the gate and left. By the way, if your quote is correct it does seem a little odd that he attribute ownership of to a string of code. Book and cover! So the idea is yours? If so do you know how you came by it. The execution is clean, precise and in it's way moody. Very attracted to the "leading the tree away from it's roots" allegory. Regards
  2. British Humour = Sarcasm Sometimes when English is second language 'sarcasm' can be read in to the script even when it was not meant. No need to downgrade your English to basic. By comparison my German is just English shouted backward
  3. And I agree with him entirely (who ever he is). "that to devise an algorithm is an Art of it's own". is An ART in its self. I do not denigrate the art in writing code to create. However the application of the coding with a click is in my opinion not creative or arty. My right to say these things I believe is simple that I (as do you all) have a right to free speech and free thought. Sorry. Didn't realise that mentioning something that has not already been 'mentioned' was against or outside some rule or other - note to self - just repeat everything you read and without fail do not choose to write something other than what you read. There that should take care of constructive thought for a years to come. Beautiful image (the mono)! How was it done? Now now let us not resort to the British sense of humour. It has been used before. Regards All.
  4. When will you ALL realise that these manipulations do NOT make original images. They are obvious, boring and derivative. Most ART is derivative Bach>mozart>>Beethoven etc.... But really try and see that the application on of an algorithm written bt an algorithm is not 'art'! J'esus. Create or not create - but please do not believe that destortion and digital manipulation is creative unless!!!!! You, yourself can create and recreate that process your self. No apologies. Sharkey
  5. I simply do not understand a word you have written. Hey. I am not stupid but if this is meant to develop th AP then this sort of stuff should be directed directly to Serif. Honestly a waste of time for me to read. I just use the thing!
  6. Little bit of pinpointing to remove the obligatory collar and ID disc; bit of local sharpening and over all contrast/colour balance and that's it . No Crufts this year and maybe not again. Long journey, expensive, and a lot of people that I am not sure I want to meet. I would enjoy Gundog day if I could arrange things to my bank managers liking (oh they don't exist now do they) but the travelling is still a bit of a faff! Oh if it was one of my 'pro' shots it would not be used. Feathering a little too natural, taken from the wrong angle, should have been a bit lower and her head needed to be a lot straighter. Neck and topline look OK but her true glory was not the point. Just her stood in the sun looking 'cool'! Regards. PS:- Plus of course she was three weeks pregnant when the photograph was taken - any one for a puppy?
  7. The first edit was to me OK-ish. The second edit (working from the first) however left grey streaks because of the desaturation used to remove the 'magenta caste'. I realise this is all subjective. I would therefor not dream to try to do better as that is also 'subjective'. Realism, character, accuracy, point of the image capture; are three variables that are all up for opinion and on line comparison is usually disastrous anyway. I would have advised a little general desaturation of the young ladies face/ hair and a little sharpening round the eyes (not just the eye itself). Selecting a different colour balance may have also been a little more subtle. If the cushion (right middle) is in fact white and accuracy was a target then selecting that area as a visual aid when changing the colour temperature might also assist. Regards
  8. OK. The Epson Pro I just downloaded is a little limited - in that the primary image(file) must be what is the final print but the layout works faultlessly. At least for the one print I have just done. Have to say it is not the first time I have found the printer software superior to anything provided by the likes of PS or AP.
  9. Nah. Not really. Print Studio Pro is a plugin - yes? I don't know if AP accepts this particular plugin, but it does accept some? Maybe that is the answer. As I said, it was ever thus. PS may produce what you want but for whatever reason it never did for me. Hence my slightly more accepting attitude I think. When you have battled long and hard and find a way of doing what you want despite all the "help/backup" from the manufacturers it kinda comes as second nature to sort it yourself. When I want to produce a printed pamphlet or post I tend to use 'Pages' which in turn defaults to the Epson driver/print layout software and do you know what - I get centralised prints-da dah! Funny thing is that when you view the document on the layout popup it looks nothing like the layout on Pages and only after rejigging in the Epson view do I get what I set up originally. When I asked Apple why this was so they said ask Epson and visa versa? My point. When two of the largest players out there are still using each other as blame mates after a gazzilion years of working together I really am saying give it time AND work round it until or if they sort it out to your liking. I know it is not a liking type of thing (like UI colours) but you get my drift. Ultimately your detailed accounts of the disfunction reported and repeated are all that is available to you - except moving on. I moved on from Adobe stuff simply because they became so impenetrable to their customer base and the software outgrew my needs massively. I will connect my favourite tech(serif) to this to add my enormous weight to the drive towards perfect printing. After it will make my life alit less bothersome. Regards PS:- just downloaded the Epson Pro Print Layout from Epson site. I let you know how it goes.
  10. I only write as I find. Apart from independent RIP software I have not found any manipulation programme able to consistently provide a printing output that is reliable. This is 30 years or so of usage. As I have said RIP for consistent professional control. Otherwise. Learn to use what you have and produce what you want. Never trusted software writers (cos I have no knowledge with which to judge). If it does not work out of the box I find a way. It is no use expecting these companies to solve their interconnection problems. After all it is only the customer that struggles. The bells and whistles of this stuff is what sells. After that it is up to the user; no matter how irate they get.
  11. Just as an aside. This miss-centering is something I have been aware of for many years using home printers of all qualities. My old HP Z3100 always printed off centre and always the same way. In that case the fixed side was always the smaller of the two. My only recourse then was to print edge to edge, which was fine on gloss but not appropriate for finer/gallery stuff on fibre papers. I have used PS since 01 I think(?), On1, Photo Mechanic and sundry others ACDC etc.. The only time I have managed completely reliable centrally place prints was when using a £300 RIP; on free trial of course. Have to say that printing (ink jet) has always been the Achilles heal of all my personal workflows. My local printing laboratory using their own RIP and epson V.Large printers tell me that before their growth enable the investment almost everything was printed on paper one size up from the image. Customers didn't know that obviously. The saving was in the time that they would have wasted in setup. Cutting after (with bulk purchased paper) was less. costly than the time spent getting it right with inferior software. I have, in the suggestions, mention the possible inclusion of a 3rd party RIP but I doubt that will ever happen. Oh this is not to belittle the problem that's being discussed; just putting a bit of history in there. Bearing in mind Epson produce about (oh god knows) how many printers and Canon/HP etc etc it does seem unlikely that every one (if any) are tested in real life circumstances by image production companies. Adobe have failed dismally for years so I am not hopeful.
  12. Oh yes they are! My solution of old was to have at least one file additionally that could be cropped post the development stage for smaller images but again I would crop and resample to the required print size. In fact way, way back turning up with a big print and drawing on the poor thing with a felt tip marker pen was not an uncommon starting point (even in the digital age)
  13. Have to say this. I really like the original more than the edits. Whoops. Sorry about that. The only thing I would have done would be crop to portrait and use a slight over sharpen for the web. Good image looking what it is - living room and a cooperative sibling.
  14. No. I can change any print setting I want without bother - but - as I only print final images the size (image&paper used) need never be changed. I have occasionally printed smaller versions for someone without web/computer facilities to see but have had no reason to use scaling changes. Simply choosing a smaller paper size and the default setting gives me a centred image of good quality. I rarely look too closely at these proofs for quality but have also never noticed any odd positioning either. Perhaps ignorance is sometime bliss. Photo of an image I posted in 'My Work' a little while back on my temporary drying wall. Usually leave prints in the shaded position for a couple of days before getting round to framing. The leading edge is on the left as you view it and the paper was ½"-12.5mm over width hence the top white area being that much wider than the bottom. I do it that way because the 3880 catches that top left hand corner with the head prior to the print starting. The 3880 does not have a vacuum under the paper so unless the paper is pre/cut/boxed and dead flat the slight lift is enough to cause a problem. My iPhone is 5/6 years out of date, hence poor image. I was in no way deriding your problem. I days got by printers and their compatibility with my own machines&software have been a source of many uncontrollable frenzies. I sympathies. My comments just point (I hope) to a couple of differences in our workflows that may be of consequence. 1/ I use an Epson printer 2/I don't use scaling 3/My image editing starts with the finished product in mind finally. 4/ I don't know enough about the driver/AP interface to make any tech type assumptions. Hope that is clearer and possibly even a little helpful
  15. I print all my wanted images as that completes the process of photography, as I see it. Cannot say or help with this problem as my Epson 3880 Pro has performed perfectly with AP since day one. Maybe my workflow including leaving room for post print cropping means I am less critical of the image positioning accuracy but from experiences starting in a darkroom printing was and is a 'dark art' of sorts and in response to that leaving plenty of paper to play with has always served me well. Additionally; printing on default size paper my results have without my errors been well within acceptable limits (1 or 2 mm). Only when printing on my custom paper sizes to try and extract the most print area from my printer do I get a little more divergence. Has this problem; or lack of one something to do with the scaling that everyone is talking about. I do not use 'scaling'. When I start an edit I know what size I want the final image to be and consequently develop the original accordingly. eg:- 600 ppi. 20"x16" gives me a developed tiff image 12000 x 9600 pixels. When I set up to print my paper is 24"x17"; so that the appalling paper feeder on my printer does not damage the printed area and off we go. The results are pretty much spot on (positionally). Maybe it's me?
  16. From a stroll in Thurso waiting for my ailing cars health check. 25%crop, my usual develop settings/inpaint & export - all in AF .107 Beta. Time approx 1minute. No extra sharpening for web original X-t2camera 18/55 lens at f4. Raf file 50mb-approx. Very pleased with the Beta so far. The develop feels quick and the result (on my screen) is exemplary. I do not know what changes are in the Beta develop for Rafs (if any) but the results are very, very good. Tried a thumbs up emoji here but site rejected it
  17. Just as an aside. Is there really much difference in output from the two 'engines' with RAFs?
  18. WOW! As usual I have no idea what a 'raster painting' is or how you mix brushes etc.. Would love to do it myself but not able to get passed the language, just for a start. This a stunning image; visually and socially. Its production is a mystery to me but it proves a number of things. 1/ you do not need necessarily to have the biggest, newest kit to do wonderful work. 2/skill, experience and knowledge depth will always surpass the latest most well known trickery. 3/Artistry crosses borders in the right Hands. Congratulations from a very grumpy hard to please old git.
  19. Beta .109 (using Apple Core Image RAW) on Mojave version 10.14.4 'beta' now opening Raf files from storage in 3-4 seconds with no problems detectable. Am now 'beta tester' for Mojave so am running Your beta on their beta! Massive response improvement on all edits so far - good stuff.
  20. Late 2013 MacPro/3.7Quad &24Gb ram +D300s. Ive been saying for some time (multiple posts) that my Fuji files were not handled as well a my old Nef or Oly were. 106 was & is >10 seconds, more like 15-20 on occasions. 107 reduced this to <5seconds and the 0.107 iteration is now crept up to about 10 seconds. Perhaps the processor difference is a reason for our differences but the time is still upwardly mobile on my machine regardless. Always been unsure what my most effective settings are (unlike with PS that has guidelines). The opening times are my guideline, hence my contact on the subject.
  21. Using Apple CIR.. The times have been varying a bit but now averaging just under the 10seconds. Image on the way.
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