ART and WATER: Making Adjustment Curves for Digital Negatives

This was designed for making photogravures (polymer), but will work for any alternative/historical photographic process that requires a negative/positive printed on a transparency with an inkjet printer.

http://youtu.be/gZAQtm4KMlQ

This is a video version of the workflow from the book
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Photogravures-With-Polymer-Plates/dp/0615919219
The video was made for one of my classes last year. The class already had lessons on intaglio printing, finding minimum (and optimum) exposure times, as well as a quick introduction to setting up the scanner to digitally capture an image of an intaglio print with multiple step wedges.

Here are links to many articles and videos.

Articles published on www.AlternativePhotography.com

When to use gray gamma 1.8 or 2.2

http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/negatives/when-to-use-gray-gamma-1-8-or-2-2-for-digital-negatives

Finding Base Exposure Time when making Photogravures with Polymer Plates

http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/photogravure/base-exposure-times-when-making-photogravures-with-polymer-plates

YouTube instruction videos

Which gray gamma setting to use for digital negatives

http://youtu.be/prNBUxlG4Ms?list=PLzYT1bX0RsTld2baNYecSEnL9ZKzbAc4A

Making your own step wedge for digital negatives

http://youtu.be/_MlwU6wQRw4?list=PLzYT1bX0RsTld2baNYecSEnL9ZKzbAc4A

Making adjustment curves for photogravures (polymer) and digital negatives

http://youtu.be/gZAQtm4KMlQ?list=PLzYT1bX0RsTld2baNYecSEnL9ZKzbAc4A