Digital BW, The Print

Alan,

One of the interesting things to do is to go into the Photoshop custom color
mixer, find a brown you like and look at the CYM and luminance numbers. It
appears like you could get a nice chocolate brown with just Y and M with the
appropriate amount of neutral black.

I have been playing with the Sepia-VM set and you can get some rather nice
browns with this, so you might want to check this out before you start
mixing your own.

As time permits I want to play with this by adjusting the amount and ratio
of Y and M in the toner position ink. One thing Paul has cautioned me about
is that the inks don't go together in a tidy, linear fashion and quite a bit
of trial and error may be required. If several of us work on different
approaches we should come up with a wonderful array of choices. Anything I
discover, good or bad, I will post.

Martin


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Zinn" <AZinn@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 10:31 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] making brown ink


> Mixologists,
>
> I have looked at the custom tinting section on the MIS pages and have a
> question.  As I understand it the hue for making a custom-toned ink set is
> controled only in the yellow position.
>
> If one were making a Van Dyke or sepia set of inks wouldn't the darkest
> value of brown then become the "black" base from which all the other tints
> are made?
>
> In other words I mix a batch of CMY to achieve sepia or brown, lower its
> value with black and use that for the tinting base.
>
> thanks,
>
> AZ
>
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