Announcements. This episode is nearly identical to the one going out on the Master Photography Podcast feed. I pick up where I start talking about the details of the print course I’m offering come April, 2019. Also, I’m doing a listener meet-up in Banff National Park area. I’ll be arriving on the 16thof Feb in the evening and ready to shoot sunrise on Sunday the 17th. I’ll be there through Tuesday morning. I hope to see some listeners there willing to brave the freezing conditions. Topic:  We’ve been talking a lot about printing recently for a few reasons. I’m developing an on-line course that will be available April 2 (I’m preventing myself from all the April fools jokes by releasing it on the 2nd, plus that’s also the birthday for a good friend of mine ? Anyway, Canon has also recently offered a fantastic deal on 13×19 printers and many folks have decided to jump in on it. It can be a load of fun, and Canon and Epson both have done a great job of getting really good prints right out of the box. But there’s more we can do. There’s special processing techniques we can learn to make our prints the best they can be and that’s mostly what we’ll be talking about today. Jeff, you got one of these printers, right? The Pixma Pro-100 I believe? (talk about this and the differences between it and my printer for a bit) I got the Pixma Pro-10. And I use an Epson 4900 at work. So I use these two printers in the course I’m producing. Both my printers have Pigment based inks, which helps with the longevity of the print. Also, the paper should be archival quality and all that, but really, we should just go through my outline and I’ll describe things as best as possible. But before we do that. I want to briefly describe the three-pronged approach I’m planning with this course. And I should note, this is going to be a paid course. I’ve been dumping countless ours into this thing and it’s been so much fun, but a lot of work too. I spent all of my Thanksgiving break and a bunch of my Christmas break recording these videos and I’m finally at the editing stage. It feels good to progress like this.  Anyway, first off, it will be a video download course that you simply watch online. It’ll have additional notes and links to highly detailed websites that I didn’t write or anything. I just like to leave some things up to the absolute experts such as the accelerated testing of prints and the like.  Then, I’ll also offer a virtual workshop online. This will be on top of the video download course. You’ll get a couple hours online with me helping you along the way if you get stuck or if you have questions you want to have answered directly. And you’ll be able to send me prints and I’ll offer feedback either as an audio recording or via Skype. And finally, I’m offering in-person workshops for printing too. Where we’ll shoot during the morning and evening but during the middle of the day we’ll be learning printing and we’ll have some fine prints to take home with us. And I’ve also had an interest in giving a presentation at a camera club. I’m thrilled to be able to pursue that option too. Please inquire if anyone is interested in that as well. Additionally, I’d like to stress that these techniques we’re talking about will be great for those looking to print online. You don’t need your own printer to get value out of this course. From now until April, I’ll be getting some prints done with online printers and I’ll record the purchasing process and explain all the stuff we’re seeing there as well as do a print analysis so I can give you my thoughts on what I was expecting vs. what I got in return. I don’t plan to contact any printers for free prints or anything like that, I’m just going to pay like the rest of you. If that changes I’ll be sure to mention it in the videos I record on this topic. Alright, let’s get to it. To start off, I’d like to point out or emphasize that I do a mental separation in the processing steps for the images. The first stage is to th