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[Digital BW] Re: QTR selecting 2 tone curves help

2005-03-18 by frankg_photo

thank you


> Mix warm and cool - I use my own curves but when I did use the UC 
curves I
> found that around 35/65 warm/cool was close.  Personally I would 
print step
> wedges of 100-0 warm-cool to 0-100 warm-cool in 10% increments.  
Sepia is
> sepia so you typically would not mix that.  Same with Coolse.  
Others may
> disagree but that is a good starting point.
> 
> 
> > From: frankg_photo <fh.gross@s...>
> > Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:06:00 -0000
> > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [Digital BW] Re: QTR  selecting 2 tone curves help
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Well I'm being stupid too and I am not contradicting the advice - 
i'm
> > quite sure printing step wedges or small segments is a correct 
way to
> > view differences,  but what i still dont get is.............. you
> > have about 4 curves on the left and 4 on the right for each paper
> > plus a hundred positions on the blend. So as per my original post,
> > where do I start looking for a neutral print on a common standard
> > like epson enhanced matte or photorag?
> > 
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Diane 
Fields"
> > <picnic@c...> wrote:
> >> I hate to clutter the list with something like this but I have to
> > say it LOL--DUH!!!
> >> I don't know why I didn't think to do either of the mentioned
> > things.  Sometimes one just overlooks the most obvious.
> >> 
> >> Diane
> >>   ----- Original Message -----
> >>   From: Steve Kale
> >>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> >>   Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 1:40 PM
> >>   Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: QTR selecting 2 tone curves help
> >> 
> >> 
> >>   Or just print a step wedge for each - all on the same page
> >>

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