Replichrome

Science takes digital images to the film age!

New Adobe Lightroom Presets Provide an Authentic Film Appearance for Digital Photos

Totally Rad! Inc. announced today the introduction of Replichrome, a set of presets and camera profiles for Adobe Lightroom and a revolutionary advancement in digital image processing technology. Replichrome allows photographers to process digital images that truly resemble a variety of traditional films with unprecedented accuracy. Totally Rad! created Replichrome to meet the needs of professional photographers who want their digital images to have the subtle tones and classic color palette of film.

Each variety of film is unique and we wanted to give users the truest film experience possible with digital images, said Doug Boutwell, CEO and Founder of Totally Rad! Inc. The process we used to create Replichrome was truly scientific. We began this project over three years ago, using 19 different cameras, film from around the world and thousands of images, all processed at three different labs and on two scanners to ensure we truly captured all of the nuances of each film stock in Replichrome, said Boutwell.

Research and development of Replichrome began on Oct. 26, 2010 and utilized:
- 19 cameras, including models from Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Olympus and other leading brands
- 137 rolls of film, sourced from California, New York, Colorado, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indonesia and Bulgaria
- More than 4,400 images
- Two versions of Adobe Lightroom and 3 versions of Adobe Photoshop
- Four Color Checkers
- 3,600 watt seconds of lighting
- 16 locations photographed
- 12 Models
- 13,294,118,900 bytes of film scanned

All of this research took hundreds of hours and gave Replichrome users 13 styles of film (nine color and four black and white) to choose from when editing their digital images. While there are 13 film stocks that can be used to edit digital images, each film has up to 6 variants to express differences in exposure and processing.

- For color films, the choice between a Noritsu or Frontier scanner
- For all films, the choice between underexposed, exposed correctly, or overexposed

We designed Replichrome to give users the ability to emulate the most popular styles of film, easily and accurately. For the digital shooter interested in the look of film, we feel that Replichrome is far and away the best tool available at any price, and we're genuinely excited about it, said Boutwell. Replichrome will be available for purchase at http://gettotallyrad.com/store/ on Aug. 26 for $99, for more information on Replichrome and the other photography editing products available from Totally Rad! go to www.gettotallyrad.com.

About Totally Rad! Inc
Totally Rad! Inc., is the brain child of a husband and wife duo, Doug and Chenin Boutwell. With backgrounds in professional photography the Boutwells created Totally Rad! Inc. to simplify digital photo editing for professional photographers. Totally Rad! Inc. makes professional Photoshop plugins and editing tools such as RadLab, Dirty Pictures, Pro Retouch 2.0, and the iPhone and iPad app PicTapGo.

Virginia Hanusik: Into the Quiet and the Light

By Virginia Hanusik

Publisher : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

2024 | 184 pages

In South Louisiana, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, water―and the history of controlling it―is omnipresent. Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana glimpses the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during an ongoing climate catastrophe and the fallout of the fossil fuel industry―past, present, and future. The book sustains our physical, mental, and emotional connections to these landscapes through a collection of photographs by Virginia Hanusik. Framing the architecture and infrastructure of South Louisiana with both distance and intimacy, introspection and expansiveness, this work engages new memories, microhistories, anecdotes, and insights from scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners working in the region. Unfolding alongside and in dialogue with Hanusik’s photographs, these reflections soberly and hopefully populate images of South Louisiana’s built and natural environments, opening up multiple pathways that defy singularity and complicate the disaster-oriented imagery often associated with the region and its people. In staging these meditations on water, life, and land loss, this book invites readers to join both Hanusik and the contributors in reading multiplicity into South Louisiana’s water-ruled landscapes.

With texts from Richie Blink, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Jessica Dandridge, Rebecca Elliott, Michael Esealuka, T. Mayheart Dardar, Billy Fleming, Andy Horowitz, Arthur Johnson, Louis Michot, Nini Nguyen, Kate Orff, Jessi Parfait, Amy Stelly, Jonathan Tate, Aaron Turner, and John Verdin.

Rawsht Twana: Twana’s Box

By Rawsht Twana

Publisher : Fraglich Publishing

2024 | 252 pages

Twana’s Box' can be described in many ways: a journey through a photographer’s rare archive, documenting the Kurdistan region of Iraq from 1974–1992; a son’s quest to find his lost father, who was murdered by a military regime; a young man’s way to piece together the fragments of a scattered family in a scattered culture; the becoming of a photographer who, through the stories of others, starts to understand his own identity in times of war. 'Twana’s Box' is not only the photo book that holds a selection of Twana Abdullah’s archive; it is a unique insight into a time and place in a region that has since completely transformed. Rawsht has spent years piecing together his father’s negatives and stories. His archival work inspired him to become a photographer himself, working for Metrography – the first independent Iraqi photo agency – before immigrating to Europe. ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, hb, Kurdish/Arabic/English

Akinbode Akinbiyi: Being, Seeing, Wandering

By Akinbode Akinbiyi

Publisher : Spector Books

2024 | 252 pages

Taken across Europe and Africa, Akinbiyi’s images of everyday city life muse on the sociopolitical labyrinths of urban society

Whether in Bamako, Berlin, London, Lagos or Durban, British photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi (born 1946) creates black-and-white street scenes that function as visual metaphors, ruminating on cultural change, social exclusion and colonialism’s effect on urban planning.

Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm

By Grace Wales Bonner

Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2024 | 184 pages

A deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression, curated by the acclaimed London-based designer
This volume, Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm―Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection, is an artist’s book created by the acclaimed London-based designer Grace Wales Bonner as “an archive of soulful expression.” Through an extraordinary selection of nearly 80 works from The Museum of Modern Art’s collection and archives, this unique volume draws multisensory connections between pictures and poems, music and performance, hearing and touch, gestures and vibrations, and bodies in motion. Photographs, scores and films by artists such as Dawoud Bey, Mark Bradford, Roy DeCarava, Lee Friedlander, David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Lorna Simpson and Ming Smith, among others, are juxtaposed with signal texts by Black authors spanning the past century, including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Robin Coste Lewis, Ishmael Reed, Greg Tate, Jean Toomer, Quincy Troupe and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner―Spirit Movers, this resplendent publication is a deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression that echoes Wales Bonner’s own vibrant, virtuosic designs.

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