Working in Capture One Pro 12 (PS or LR not available, sorry).
It’s not possible to create in Capture One Pro a ‘black’ canvas around the picture(s).
This will result on a ‘black’ canvas around the picture(s) when printed on a Pictorico film (I’ve used the P2-PiezoDN-PtPd curve).
–> How to have a ‘white’ canvas around the pictures when printed on the Pictorico film?
I’ve made a ‘black’ picture that I’ll use as a ‘background’ in PrintTool.
On top of this ‘background’ I’ll place the picture(s) that I would like to develop in the next steps.
In the attached file to this topic, you can see a screen shot of the PrintTool with the ‘black background’ and on top four pictures’.
This will give a print of the four pictures whit a white background.
–> Is this method OK or will it give some disadvantages or flaws that I don’t see for the moment.
If you create a black canvas around the image in Ps, Lr, C1, GIMP, or anything else, you will get a clear canvas on the negative.
If you want a black masking edge on the negative, you must give it a white border on the image. But you still will need to create a black canvas the same size as the film in order to prevent QTR from printing black out to the edge of the film, which can make a mess in the printer.
You can do all of this in whatever image editor you use, but you can also do it in Print-Tool which can be very efficient. The one thing P-T does not allow is changing layer order so you must open them in the right order.
Keith, thanks! I’m starting with PiezoDN and keen to learn.
In C1 I’m did found (and think it will not be possible) how to add a ‘canvas’ or border around the image. Anyway - I’ve made a ‘black’ background that I load first in PT and with the correct order of importing other items in PT it will be as in your example.
I known that in PT you’re able to add some text. It seems that, in your example, you’ve added a text file from outside PT. Which application do you use for creating these text files?
Best Regards, Peter
Hope you’re doing well with COVID-19. Here in Belgium it’s a different way of life.
I should have mentioned that I keep a folder on my desktop for easy access to Black background masks (always full sheet size of the film) and White edge masks (generally 1 inch larger in both dimensions than image size).
I actually just type in the text in P-T. There are menus for font/size/color under the Text drop-down list. I like your idea of having a ready-made file to copy/paste from, though. I might play around with that a bit. It would be nice if it could be pre-formatted too. I’ll try a few apps and see if anything works that way.
The positioning of the text layer serves another purpose for me too: I use the bottom of the text as a positioning guide for aligning the paper beneath the image. In this case it is a 10x20" sheet for a 7x17" image.
