Category Archives: Software

Software for the graphic arts or photography

…and then there was pincushion distortion

Posted on February 26, 2026 by Brian Lawler

This is another in a chain of posts related to my effort to digitize my film library. Please click here to read the first in this series. In the RF-series lens collection made by Canon, there is only one true … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Scanning, Software, Technology | Tagged Adobe lens profiles, Adobe lens profiling software, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Digitizing film, lens profiles in Adobe Camera Raw, lens profiles in Adobe Lightroom, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Digitizing 70mm film

Posted on February 20, 2026 by Brian Lawler

I have now digitized over 2,000 photos from film, mostly 35mm color slides. It has been fun, and relatively easy. My system is holding up well. The archiving envelopes are working well enough, and the small corrugated boxes that I … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Building things, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Scanning, Software | Tagged 3D printing a film carrier, 70mm film, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Digitizing film, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Digitizing film requires an entire ecosystem

Posted on February 1, 2026 by Brian Lawler

This is the fourth in a series about how I am digitizing film from my past, and making it part of my digital archive. The start at the beginning, please click here. I knew that once I started digitizing my … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Gadgets, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Scanning, Software | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, copying film to digitial, Digitizing film, NegativeLab Pro, scanning film, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Making digital images on the camera stand

Posted on January 25, 2026 by Brian Lawler

This is the third in a series of posts about digitizing film. To start at the beginning, please click here. My camera stand project is now set up and running. I am using my Canon R5 camera and my Laowa … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Color Management, Digital video, Gadgets, Photography, Scanning, Software | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Thin lines and fine type

Posted on August 29, 2025 by Brian Lawler

This is the fourth in a series of analyses of the output of the Landa S10P press. If you would like to start at the beginning, click here. Whenever a printer gets out a magnifying glass, there are bound to … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Color Management, New technology, Printing and Printing Processes, Software, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, Landa press test, Landa S10P, Landa S10P press, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

AI Crop tool in new Photoshop is delightful

Posted on September 13, 2024 by Brian Lawler

In my previous two posts I have talked about features in the latest (currently beta) version of Photoshop that are worthy of your attention. This is another. Many (many!) times in my career I have wanted/needed a photo to have … Continue reading →

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Software, Technology | Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, New Photoshop feature, Photoshop AI Expand, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Another victory
for automated intelligence in photography

Posted on July 31, 2024 by Brian Lawler

A few weeks back I wrote about my success in working with ChatGPT to manage some very complex text, making it editable, and making it possible for me to re-publish two out-of-print catalogs of matrices for Linotype and Intertype machines. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Software, Technology | Tagged Adobe Photoshop, AI image retouching, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Photoshop AI tools, retouching an image with AI, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Of molten lead and ChatGPT

Posted on July 7, 2024 by Brian Lawler

At the core of The Blognosticator are posts about the graphic arts, printing processes, solutions to printing processes, and related items. The blog was originally an arm of Graphic Arts Monthly magazine, who hired me in 2000 to write blogs, … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Software, Technology, Typography | Tagged AI in the graphic arts, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, ChatGPT in graphic arts, Intertype machine, Linotype machine, Shakespeare Press Museum, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Running the Landa Nanopress

Posted on June 5, 2022 by Brian Lawler

Part III [Part II] [Part I] After numerous visits to the printing plant where the Landa Nanopress is running, I have a pretty good idea of how that machine works. I am assisted by a very nice diagram on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bookbinding, Imposition and Pagination, Printing and Printing Processes, Software, Technology | Tagged Blueprint AG, Brian Lawler, digital book printing, Landa Nanopress, Munich, Production ink-jet, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Lining Livermore, der zweite Teil

Posted on February 27, 2022 by Brian Lawler

This is a continuation of a blog I wrote two days ago. To read the first part, click here. After I put all the letters (called “glyphs” In typography) into a master Adobe Illustrator document, I built the destination environment for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Software, Technology, Typography | Tagged Antique type, ATF, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, FontLab, Shakespeare Press Museum, type design, Type Network | Leave a comment