Category Archives: Photoshop techniques

…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

76 yards…what do you get?

Posted on January 21, 2026 by Brian Lawler

Yesterday at sunrise a huge concrete pumping truck showed up at my shop construction site. It was about 6:30 in the morning. I had set up my time-lapse camera on a tripod overlooking the site, and the shutter was activated … Continue reading →

Posted in Building things, People, Photography, Photoshop techniques | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Canon R5 Mark II, cement pumping, The Blognosticator, time-lapse photography | Leave a comment

More on the camera stand project

Posted on November 18, 2025 by Brian Lawler

In yesterday’s post I described how I built a camera stand to re-photograph (“digitize”) my film. In order to be more helpful, I thought I would share here my working drawings and my engineering drawings so that others might make … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Color Management, Gadgets, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, building a photo copy stand, building things with CNC machine, Digitizing film, reproducing film, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Printing high-resolution line art on the S10P

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Brian Lawler

Update: I have been reading about financial troubles at Landa. The company has asked for protection from its creditors in an event similar to Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. With over $500 million in debt, the company hopes to … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Color Management, History, New technology, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Scanning, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Landa ink-jet press, Landa Nanoprnting, Landa S10P, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Not printing colors that the press can print

Posted on July 17, 2025 by Brian Lawler

Note: Landa recently announced a new version of their press, the S11P. The most significant difference is speed. Where the presses I have tested print 6,250 two-sided impressions per hour, the new Landa press can print at twice that speed. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Color Management, Graphic Arts people, New technology, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, Color profiling a Landa press, Landa Nanographic printing technology, Landa S10P press, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Exploring the capabilities of the Landa S10P press

Posted on June 30, 2025 by Brian Lawler

I recently finished a year teaching at Cal Poly. I retired from that institution in 2020, and was rehired last year to fill-in for a colleague on leave. The course I taught was Color Management, which I had taught for … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Color Management, Education, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Scanning, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, Landa SP10, Nanographic technology, Press testing, Testing the Landa press, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Failing to profile a direct-to-garment T shirt press

Posted on June 5, 2025 by Brian Lawler

At Printing United last year I visited the Aeoon Technologies booth, where I met Austin Thom who runs a business in Oregon printing digital images on T shirts with one of these machines. I was dazzled by the quality of … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Art, Color Management, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology | Tagged Aeoon, Aeoon direct-to-garment, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, direct-to-garment, Direct-to-gilm printing, DTG, Inj-jet printing T shirts, The Blognosticator | 3 Comments

My giraffe in a jacket – more AI madness

Posted on February 12, 2025 by Brian Lawler

I’ve been experimenting with AI, and having considerable success. In previous blogs I wrote about my tremendous success with ChatGPT, with which I was able to convert printed text into editable text for a book I was trying to re-publish … Continue reading →

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