Baren Digest              Monday, 27 January 2003      Volume 22 : Number 2109


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From: jimandkatemundie#juno.com
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 13:34:41 -0500
Subject: [Baren 20557] Re: SwapShop 

Carol Lyons wrote:


> Hi,
>  I just received my 5 prints from Swap Shop and they are beauties 
> from the likes of Maria Arango, David Bull, Diana Lakes, Phillip Smith,

and 

> Lezle Williams.
> 
> If you are not in the regular Baren Swap because of the number of 
> prints needed  I highly recommend  that you be part of the Swap Shop.

Click 

> onto Swap Shop on the Baren site for all the info.
> 
> Thank you to Jim Mundie for organizing it. 
> (Jim, I hope you dont mind me drumming up business)


Heck, I don't mind.  Drum away, Carol!  

Yes folks, you too can be the proud owner of lovely woodcut prints by
your fellow printmakers.  

Gosh!  How is such a thing possible? 

All you need to do is send in at least six prints (plus a small fee to
cover return postage), and then wait to get new prints in the mail.  The
number of prints you get back depends on the number you send (one copy of
your submission goes to the archives).  How quickly you get prints back
depends largely on how many other swappers have sent prints in to swap.  

All the details are to be found at
http://www.barenforum.org/swapshop/index.html.  It couldn't be more
simple, and the prints you receive are bound to surprise you.  Several
SwapShop swappers are now waiting to get their bundles back in the mail,
so why not help them along by sending in a packet of your prints?

Cut! Print! SEND!

Regards,
James Mundie, SwapShop coordinator

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From: Mike Lyon <mikelyon#mlyon.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:46:47 -0600
Subject: [Baren 20558] Re: layer separation 

At 02:33 PM 1/25/2003 -0800, GIlda wrote:

>I love your teeny tiny prints.  I do not know if perhaps i missed this way 
>back when or if this is your trade secret . When using photographs for 
>your prints how do you break down each color and do you use a certain 
>software program to separate them into layers.
>
>--- Gilda


Dear Gilda,

It's not proprietary, I don't thing, but most of what I do is the result of 
my own particular skills, capabilities, and interests which I can't imagine 
would be of much interest except to me and would take an unfairly long time 
to describe.

In brief, as you might already imagine, I Adobe Photoshop.  First I 
'posterize' the photo, then use the Noise/Median filter to remove artifacts 
of posterization too small to carve.

Originally I was using Photoshop in order to more quickly develop custom 
color pallets for tilings and tiled paintings and to output Raw image data 
for input and manipulation in Excel spreadsheet (after converting the raw 
values into ascii csv format for Excel to read using programs I wrote for 
the purpose).

After the 'Median' filter I use the 'threshold' function to separate and 
print each individual color layer.

- -- Mike



Mike Lyon
mailto:mikelyon#mlyon.com
http://www.mlyon.com  

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