Digital BW, The Print

Thanks William!  It sounds like either way I need to get a printed 
copy of an image prior to working up a 'soft proof' layer.  

Brian
http://www.brianchapmanphotography.com

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Iverson, 
William" <wiverson@...> wrote:
>
> See Mitch Alland's File (May 2006) in the Imageprint Yahoo Group 
file
> section.  The discussion of dot gain curves there is applicable to
> Piezography (which is where it came from, originally).  As Mitch 
argue,
> it allows soft proofing directly.  Myself, I've always preferred 
the
> alternative technique Mitch discusses, of (1) getting an image that
> prints reasonably well in Piezography (or Imageprint), (2) on you
> monitor in Photoshop, create a curves layer such that the monitor 
image
> matches the print as precisely as possible, and then (3) use that 
curves
> layer as a top layer in editing subsequent images, but being 
careful to
> disable or delete the curves layer before printing.  I find this
> simpler, and it's easier to do fine tweaks on a curves layer than 
a dot
> gain layer; the curves layer functions essentially as a soft-proof
> "layer," except that you have to disable it before printing -- 
Mitch
> objects to this, but I find I can remember (almost always), and the
> simplicity/flexibility outweighs that disadvantage.  De gustibus 
non
> disputandum est.
> 
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