about

This is a blog/website dedicated to the argument that digital techniques and tools can be influential in both the creation and the presentation of pictorial art. In short, this was an approach taken – by necessity – when mainframe computers were first used for image rendering in the 1980s. But, over time, the evolution of the personal computer and its associated peripherals (particularly photo-quality inkjet printing equipment) has led many to work more narrowly, with an emphasis on replicating classical photographic processes. There are even a large group of specialists who have targeted the emulation of traditional painting, complete with brushstrokes in their “finished” digital prints. In contrast, the concentration here will be on using digital image processing to highlight line and shape, mass and tone, color and value, texture and shading, etc., all in ways which will be familiar to those who have studied art history and criticism. Plus, the extension of the very same principles into the presentation format for the finished work.

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