Getting Started, Hardware and Software
Douglas Ethridge · 2023
The hybrid workflow is very much about exercising creative control over your images: creative control over which camera and format you find most suitable and enjoyable to work with for any given task; creative control over how you shape the tonal values of every image; creative control over the way the finished prints appear. Epson makes good quality film-capable flatbed scanners which are well suited for medium and large format negatives. Adobe Photoshop, Camera RAW and Bridge are the three main software tools used throughout this book. While there are other very good image editing software tools available, the precision and close integration of the Adobe tools makes for an efficient workflow. From a technical standpoint, any version of Photoshop from CS5 on, works well for the hybrid workflow.