Comments on: It’s “Guest Blog Wednesday” featuring Andrew Rodney, Jeff Schewe, Greg Gorman, Mac Holbert, and John Paul Caponigro

By: Warren

Warren — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:46:34 +0000

Printing! Ha! Not Problem ! Profiles! Ha! Not Problem ! All the question I ever had were answered by Mr. Rodney! Woof! Thanks to all the great videos and the DigitalDog site! The only thing left for me now is to get an autograph on my beat up copy of your book before i leave Albuquerque back home to Alaska!
Whadda ya say Dogman!!

By: Nick T.

Nick T. — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:15:05 +0000

for those that can’t make it to the seminar can probably get a lot of useful info on color management from the lynda.com site as it it based on the Real World Color Management book…

By: Epson Print Academy - NYC : John Paul Caponigro Blog

Epson Print Academy - NYC : John Paul Caponigro Blog — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:45:13 +0000

[...] The Epson Print Academy will be in NYC tomorrow. Rodney, Schewe, Gorman, Holbert, Caponigro. Check out this recent blog post at Photoshop Insider where we each describe our sessions. [...]

By: Dawn @ My Home Sweet Home

Dawn @ My Home Sweet Home — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:08:08 +0000

I really wanted to attend the opening session in Atlanta, but had a group mother/son outing scheduled with my boys, so I missed it (Print Academy).

One thing’s for sure, your guest bloggers are the best photographed of any blog I read.

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:44:18 +0000

Thanks for your response Andrew.

1) To your “You could just try asking” response. Have you ever heard the saying that “you don’t know, what you don’t know”? That rings true here. I almost wrote that I’m not expecting you to be a mind reader but you know what… I am. You’re the expert. You’ve taught these print sessions all over and I think you know exactly the places where people have problems and what types of requests you get often. I really don’t know what I was looking for from your blog post when I first remember being excited about it on Tuesday. Maybe some insights, FAQs, inspiration, tips, etc… Something a little beefier then you provided.

2) Concerning your statements about making it to a print academy or Photoshop World. I’m sure you’ve looked around at the economy and it ain’t doin so good these days. I know I’m feeling it and maybe no one else here is. For starters, travel costs are out of control. Not only can I not afford to travel but I can’t afford to be away from work either.

3) The direction toward the NAPP forum is good advice. I’m actually a member and use them all the time and I think that’s great advice for folks that can’t afford travel and seminars. I will say, I was personally looking forward to your colleagues thoughts here on the blog rather then yours. I find your interactions with some folks on those forums a bit on the unfriendly side at times. I absolutely respect what you do, but I’m just not a big fan (sorry).

I’ll sum it up this way Andrew. I’m not looking for you to give your training away for free here on the blog. I think I was looking forward to your thoughts (or even inspiration) on the topic that has made you guys famous. That’s where I think you fell short.

Thanks for your time.

By: Andrew Rodney

Andrew Rodney — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:51:04 +0000

>I see the worlds experts have no insight to offer unless Iâ€™m able to attend their seminar (which I canâ€™t because I donâ€™t live near any of the cities).

You could just try asking (as others have here) or ask on the NAPP forums of which some are there to answer your questions.

You don’t ask, we can’t help. Of course you can moan about the blog and that you can’t make it to a print academy (even though we have people from all over the country attend). If you don’t want to take the time to ask or attend a seminar, including Photoshop World (where there WILL be a Print Academy), well short of mind reading, which I’m piss poor at, I can’t help you Carl.

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:27:06 +0000

Come on guys… you really know how to disappoint. Seriously, on Tuesday when I saw the line up for today I thought it would be great to get some insight from the world’s experts in printing. And this is what you give us? A commercial. Way to take advantage of the “Guest blog” spot and use it to actually help people.
I see the worlds experts have no insight to offer unless I’m able to attend their seminar (which I can’t because I don’t live near any of the cities).
Judging from the note at the top where it’s quoted “In their own words” I’m guessing that scott feels the same but can’t really say.
So I’ll patiently wait for the real gurus over at NAPP or Kelbytraining to do something on the topic.

Thanks anyway Scott. It was a good try.

By: Andrew Rodney

Andrew Rodney — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:06:04 +0000

>The one big issue I have when printing is the brightness. My LCD screen always looks brighter than the print.

You deal with that by lowering the luminance of your display calibration for to result in a match (when viewing a soft proof with paper and ink simulation on). So if your target is 150cd/m2, raise or lower it to produce a visual match.

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:01:27 +0000

The one big issue I have when printing is the brightness. My LCD screen always looks brighter than the print. I need to apply around a +0.75 exposure before printing to get close. The colours match just the brightness, anyone else have this issue?

Scott, I’d love to see you do a video on printing from start to finish…

By: nicholas von staden

nicholas von staden — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:34:08 +0000

Come on Scott…use your influence…we need a stop in good old FLA….they get two in LA and San Fran?

By: Andrew Rodney

Andrew Rodney — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:03:20 +0000

>ALL the dates are in the US. What about Europe.
>Iâ€™d consider going but I live in Australia

We’d all love to come there too! First things first….

By: ron hiner

ron hiner — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:56:53 +0000

Ok, I’m in. See you guys in NYC.