If you arrived at this page, you were likely following a link to one of the Digital Outback Photo (DOP) tools that The Camera Forum once hosted reference pages for. Those pages have been retired because the resources they pointed to are no longer available.
Uwe Steinmueller, the photographer and writer behind Digital Outback Photo, passed away in July 2013. He was 65. For over a decade he had been one of the most thoughtful voices on digital photographic workflow, color management, and printing. His Outback Photo Handbook and the DOP series of Photoshop scripts and plugins, including DOP Optimal Sharp, DOP Optimal Snap, DOP Texture Blending, DOP Upsizing Plus, and DOP Luma Mask Pro, were used by serious photographers around the world. He brought a quiet engineering sensibility to questions of image quality that most reviewers were happy to skim over.
The product reference pages that once lived at the URLs that brought you here were essentially product descriptions and “Buy” links. Both the product distribution platform (Plimus) and the original outbackphoto.com and outbackphoto.net domains have gone dark in the years since Uwe’s passing. The “Buy” buttons no longer reach a payment processor. The product images no longer load. Keeping those broken pages indexed served no one well.
Some archive material remains at the Outback Photo Handbook, still online at:
http://handbook.outbackphoto.com/section_workflow_basics/index.html
If you are looking for a specific DOP tool, that handbook is currently the most complete remaining reference. Uwe’s writing on workflow basics, color theory, and printing remains worth reading even where the specific tools are no longer purchasable.
The Camera Forum’s broader archive cleanup, which produced this redirect, is part of an effort to ensure that links from TCF still take readers somewhere useful, or at minimum acknowledge honestly when a resource is no longer there. Uwe deserved better than orphan 404 pages.
If you knew Uwe, or used his tools, and have memories or material you would like preserved as part of the photographic record, contact The Camera Forum.
