> I've yet never been on a list where the number of posters was not vastly > outnumbered by the 'quiet' membership. I'm happy to contribute when I can, > -and- learn a lot as well. I could not disagree more strongly with the > elitist, 'post or go away' attitude that I see on occasions. I'm happy to > 'give away' info if that is how some see it. Just because some the knowledge > may have taken years to acquire is not, to me, a reason to adopt a 'guild > secrets' mentality.
> Keith Cooper Dear Posters and Lurkers all As an early adopter of digital, circa 1995, sort of member of DIG and known to a few of you. (I am so glad I don' have to deal with film any more.) Those heady early days of DIG were when our main reason for existence was to make digital capture acceptable, viable and consistently deliverable to clients. To demonstrate the advantages and overcome the problems, not least the Pre Press companies with something to lose and a vested interest in making us poor smudgers look incompetent. Without DIG and ProDig I would not have found a way through some of my difficulties that we all seem to have had at one time or another. I have no idea of the 'professional status' of those posters who helped. All knowledge can be useful. I have no way of quantifying the importance of the knowledge freely given here or of knowing how much my workflow is informed by this list. Nor the potential value of a resource that will respond quickly if I hit a major problem. We're all learning but we've all come along way in the last 8 years. As photographers we now know about scanning, retouching, proofing, dot gain, ink limits...... Film was a lot easier in some ways. We're fine tuning now, not amazed at getting a result. As to posting, someone always gets there quicker than me. Usually with a better solution. As to sifting, its not that hard to save the stuff you might need and delete the rest. As to moderating there are some associated areas to digital imaging that might be allowed more discussion but generally most topics run their usefulness. Keith's right. It's not the 'secrets' but how you use them. Sharing knowledge does not lose clients! Best regards to all Andrew McArthur =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
