From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You pick one of your pictures (one that you typically had difficulties in gettng > > right), > fresh out of the scanner - send it in a reasonable size to a number of volunteers on > the > list (I'll be one of them) who will do their finishing and adjustments according to > their > taste (no competition). > > The pictures will be put up somewhere for all to see and ponder upon, and you'll > > be able > to see if any of them will be to your liking and the guys who did the job can tell > you and > all of us what and how they did to it. > > This way you, and anybody, might get some valuable hints on basic digital > photofinishing. > > What do you think? > > Lasse > This is why i love this list.:-) > That would be a great idea.I'll have to go back and look(I'm at work now)and re look > at > some.
Great. We'll start off this project with one Dave's pictures, when he's got one ready for us. I'd like to extend this idea further and to the list introduce Workshop of the Week, or WOW for short for the subject line as above. (If anyone got a better suggestion for a subject line ID, speak up.) Anyone on the list can offer a picture of his/hers and ask for help or just for a second way of finishing it. Submitted "interpretations" by volunteer photofinishers will be put up on the web. The supplier of the photo, or anybody, can comment and ask about the hows and whats that was done to the picture and probably learn a bit here and there as we proceed. And voil� - eventually the PDML will have gained reputation as the expert digital photofinishers on line! :-) We'll all be experts! Apart from my kidding, do you think it's a good idea? Anyone can join or benefit from it in some way. For this first round on Dave's picture we've so far got Larry from Prescott Butch Black Paul Stenquist and me as volunteers. But there is room for more. My idea is NOT to make his a competition of who's going to do "the best" version of any picture, but rather to use some basic techniques that will be available for anyone's software, not only for the latest exclusive Photoshop tricks and such. Each participant will keep track of what he/she is doing in order to be able to report it if asked about it. (You could make notes, do screen shots of tools (levels etc) you apply, or maybe even record the steps as actions... Comments welcome.) What d'ya all think? Shall we give it a try as an ongoing project? Lasse
