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Posted on 14/09/09 11:38:14 AM

Faith Ince
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Printing-in Tool

I have been following a tutorial in a book on Photoshop, and am supposed to 'darken' an area with the 'Printing-in Tool'. Could this be the Burn tool?

Posted on 14/09/09 3:59:16 PM

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Re: Printing-in Tool

That seems like a safe assumption. Sounds like a British term for burn tool. (Probably get some flak for that regional slur).

Posted on 14/09/09 7:21:11 PM

Steve Caplin
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Re: Printing-in Tool

Never heard of this tool! Could it have suffered from a mistranslation?

Sounds to me like you could be reading the wrong book. I can recommend a couple...

Posted on 14/09/09 8:17:02 PM

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Re: Printing-in Tool

Sorry Steve. I have your book and have made good use of it. I am currently looking at "Creative Digital Photography", page 123 which states "I used the Printing-in tool to reduce the density of the lake scene where I wanted the upper image to show through".
The author refers again to the Printing-in tool on page 142. "The body did not read clearly enough in certain places, so I used the Printing-in tool to darken the water image in these areas to give the highlights on the nude more emphasis".
Make any sense to you? I'm quite puzzled.

Posted on 15/09/09 8:39:23 PM

BigVern
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Re: Printing-in Tool

I googled "Printing-in tool" and came across a US Navy Photographer's training manual which has the following explanation; it does seem therefore that printing-in is another name for "burning" in photographic developing of images and therefore you can use the dodge/burn tools in photoshop.

"A printing-in tool is usually a piece of cardboard with a hole in the center that is smaller but approximately the same shape as the area to be printed in. Or your hand, shaped to form a hole through which the light passes, can be used.

A printing-in tool is positioned between the enlarger lens and the prating paper so that light passes through the hole and exposes only the part of the paper you want to print darker. The rest of the image is blocked by the tool or your hand."

Posted on 16/09/09 12:10:24 PM

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Re: Printing-in Tool

Thanks BigVern. From the context of the tutorial, I thought it must be another name for "Burning" but no Photoshop book I looked at (except the tutorial in the book I was using) mentioned the "Printing-in" tool. I will just go ahead and use the burn tool.