Digital BW, The Print

At 10:14 AM +0000 4/7/02, memefirechicken wrote:
>I 'am fairly new to the digital world so please go easy on me with
>the techno. language. I need to print out my images in a light sepia
>tone. I have a PC, Photoshop 6, and an Epson 1280 w/ MIS archival
>inks (reg. color/black, not hextone). I have read work flows from
>Roark and just about everyone else, and cant find anyone working in
>this way.
>I ran into Butch H.(an instuctor of mine) at his opening of his
>gallery show and he told me about this online group. And by the way
>the exhibition was a huge success, his work was flawless, and I
>couldnt belive it when he told me he used 35mm negs. WOW. Absolutley
>unbelivable that you can get that kind of quality(tonal range) and
>size from 35mm/digital prints.
>Right now the paper Im using is Epson matte heavyweight, but I have
>some Tunbridge on the way. I've tryed Duotone in photoshop -yuk, and
>Ive tryed switching to RGB and messing with the color balance, but Im
>not getting good results. I know part of the reason is like Butch
>said I need a program to sync my monitior and printer up, but I just
>havent wanted to give up the money for it since Im a student, and not
>professional. Anyway anyone have any ideas for moderate to light
>sepia tone in my prints? Thanks, Clary
>


One of the easiest of several ways to do this is to put your image in 
Photoshop in RGB mode,  then make a new layer and name it sepia. Fill 
that layer... the new one which is on top of your image... with the 
color you like.  Set that sepia layer's mode to color (default is 
normal) and lower the opacity until you have what you want.  The 
image will appear when you change the mode to color...that way it is 
not opaque and works only on the dark pixels... and dropping the 
opacity turns down the color intensity.

Another way is to and make an adjustment layer using color balance 
and place it on top of your image layer.  Tweek the midtones using 
magenta and yellow until you have what you want. Be sure to check 
preserve luminosity.  I find that I usually put in about 2x the 
amount of yellow as magenta.  You can either do a little of a lot 
depending on how much color you want to add.



Bill
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