Hi Shannon ! I do not use the optical center. I just move the image a few millimeters up from the center. It shows and breaks the symetrical look the print had. A few millimeters are enough. And it looksbetter. When printing (or mounting) using the optical center, the print is too high in the surroundings. Almost for my taste. Have a nice day ! Shannon Stoney a écrit : > This is interesting. I am afraid I could not quite follow your > directions for optical center finding, but usually I can sort of > eyeball it. > > Somebody told me once that the reason prints are usually mounted with > more space at the bottom, is that prints were formerly often hung > salon-style. A lot of prints, therefore, were hung up pretty high, > so that the viewer had to look up to see them. If you've ever been > to the Barnes collection in Philadelphia, you know what this means: > there are paintings from floor to ceiling it seems, on all the walls. > Horrible, really. But back in the days when prints were really > prints--that is, etchings, lithographs, etc from a printing > press--apparently they were often hung this way, and our photographic > tradition of calling our work prints, and mounting them with extra > space at the bottom, may derive from this. The extra space was needed > at the bottom to make the prints look centered, when they were five > feet above your head. Now, however, it's a convention, and that's > why it looks "funny" if you don't have extra space at the bottom. > > This is just something I heard and I don't know if it's true. > > --shannon -- Ce message est constitué d'au moins 50 % d'électrons recyclés. Aucun électron n'a été blessé ou forcé d'aucune manière pendant l'écriture de ce message. S'il vous plaît aidez nous à conserver nos ressources, recyclez vos électrons ! ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.