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I am new to the Gallery, or will be, as I just got a scanner.
Looking around, I see some works with H labels, some with A labels, yet many actual individual process descriptions read the same.

I looked for a clear posting and labeling rule and did not find any (yet).

What is the "best practice" rule?
 
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A means the image was shot on film and printed in the darkroom.

H means it was shot on film and the film was then scanned and the image edited on the computer to do the things you woulddo in the darkroom like adjusting color, contrast, brightness, and dodging & burning. After that the image is printed digitally (inkjet, for example)
 

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After that the image is printed digitally (inkjet, for example)
That is the critical part of the "H" designation.
If you are simply scanning for display at Photrio, you can and should still use "A" unless you used digital tools to substantially modify the image - modifications like adjusting color, contrast and brightness are fine.
 

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H means it was shot on film and the film was then scanned and the image edited on the computer to do the things you woulddo in the darkroom like adjusting color, contrast, brightness, and dodging & burning. After that the image is printed digitally (inkjet, for example)

not exactly ...

H is a designation for materials made any number of ways combining old and new technologies **

It can be done in house ink jet or dye sub or laser from a traditional in camera negative or, light jet / dye sub from a lab and the OP scanned that, or it could be a scanned machine print.
H also means that it could have been a traditional darkroom, dim room, sun ( or uv light bank ) print using a historic process technique like albumen print, salt print, cyanotype pt/pd print, gelatin silver print, &c made with film, pictorico/overhead transparency / digital negative or even computer generated file printed on traditional film (like Ilford ), or a variety of paper negatives made via Xerox ( similar copy machine process ), inkjet/laser print &c. The "modern" negative could have been anything from a scan of stuff put on a scanner, to a digital file from a high end camera or telephone or a scanned negative or print.

** .... unless it doesn't and it is like 1990 and it meant a single edition / singular image made in the darkroom using camera made, hand made and scavenged semi + translucent materials projected/enlarged together with a large dry plate ( made with hand made or bottled emulsion ) printed on store bought photo paper. sadly I didn't TM the expression ...

YMMV
 
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