Digital BW, The Print

A trick I learned a long time ago when trying to do color matching like that was to 
squint so the object goes almost blurry. Also, the natural tendancy is to get really 
close to see it.  In reality, just the opposite is true. Stay back several feet then 
squint. It really helps make it easier to see the variances in tone.

I was lucky and got Photoshop 5 and 5.5 right on the money. When I upgraded to 
6 and 6.01, I have never been able to get it quite right again. The auto level and 
auto contrast commands used to hit my brightness and contrast curves right on 
too but something has changed with 6.x that I can't seem to fix. Now I spend a lot 
of time manually tweaking.

Greg

> > If you don't intend to invest in a monitor spider you best way is 
> to go to the control panel and open up Adobe Gamma. Follow the steps
> carefully. It works very well. The problem I had was that everytime I
> used it, I couldn't get what I had the first time. That is the nature
> of any method that rely on human site and color preseption. An
> electronic device will read the same every time. Calibrating the
> monitor is the first and necessary step in color management, but alone
> is not all that is necessary to get what you see on the monitor. Try
> Adobe Gamma, then print using the same settings you have been and see
> if it makes any difference.