The Byrata Papers

Harman was the first to announce a Byrata paper (Fb Al Gloss). A good review of this paper is here. A lot of home and professional printers including myself switched to using this exclusively. The paper is very reminiscent of the Ilford B&W Traditional Darkroom paper and is great for both Color and B&W prints especially toned prints. This paper was soon followed by Ilford’s Gold Fibre Silk and more recently by Hahnemuhle. A very good review of the 3 Byrata papers can be found here.

This post is not about comparing them again. This is about my experience on using these papers on the HP B9180 printer.

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ACR Calibration for Lightroom – Part 4

The way Adobe is thinking about this, this may be the last part in the ACR series. The previous part can be read here.

With the announcement of DNG Profiles, Adobe may have finally closed the loop on the need for calibration aspects of ACR for most people. Purists may still need to tweak this, but so far – i am quite happy and the results are actually very good. Read more

Some changes to the site…

If you have been a regular or have ever visited this site before, you must have noticed some new changes to the site. Especially the new site design.

I know that a significant number of folks that read my blog, do so via RSS feeds/readers. I myself use one and rarely go to people’s sites directly. That said, i was kinda bored seeing the same images and layout.

A few may know that this blog uses Wordpress (WP) and changing a theme in WP is quite simple actually – However, I had customized the original theme to the point that i liked the layout (single page with no sidebars etc. and changing it was not a matter of simply changing it. It would have broken a number of things (especially posts). Read more

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