Digital BW, The Print

Does anyone know how to load curves in photoshop 7?  They don't appear in the menu that offers choices to click on. Any particular folder
the curves have to be in? In photoshop 6, it was just the photoshop folder.

Jerry



charles_bandes wrote:

> Thank you for this explanation, Tyler. (And for your curves for that
> matter - they are the only things keeping me from throwing my 1280 off
> a bridge, after switching it to CIS Paul's curves spontaneously
> stopped working for me - probably a bad batch of ink, I guess.)
>
> Question 1 - does it matter what working space I choose when using
> your curves? If so, which one do you recommend? I have had decent (but
> different) results in both Adobe RGB and sRBG
>
> Question 2 - How does the media setting in photoshop affect things? Is
> there a way to have the curves work in 2880 dpi effectively? (Or is
> this just irrelevant?)
>
> Question 3 - I have a subtle (but irritating) problem with _every_
> curve I use whereby there's a small dark band around the 70% point -
> this is better with your curves than Paul's, but still a problem, any
> thoughts about how I might mitigate the problem? (I am using a 1280 on
> an OSX mac and your recommended settings (though perhaps the wrong
> colorspace?)
>
> Question 4 - Does the Magenta slider still affect the tone of the
> print with your curves?
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "tboleyyh" <tyler@t...> wrote:
> > Carolyn is right. Color managed workflows, in my experience, are
> cross platform. You can't avoid color management any
> > more, if you are working in Photoshop, you are being managed whether
> you like it or not so you might as well learn it.
> > Actually, it's essential, but there are some pitfalls to avoid so it
> all works.
> > You must avoid letting the Epson driver inject it's problems into
> the mix. With quads, using separations, you want all your
> > control in photoshop to be transferred to the inks without further
> mixing. Considering you can't get around the drivers
> > injection of K ink and the removal of other inks in the process you
> already have problems, you don't need more. The only
> > way to directly control C, M, and Y inks (until their combined
> percentages force K) is to stay in no color adjustment in the
> > driver.
> > You also must have your destination space be "same as source" or
> there will be color managed corrections you don't need
> > or want. The other issue is "Printer Color Management". C. D. Tobie,
> who I notice has been on this list a bit, just posted about
> > it on the Colorsync list. It does different things on different
> platforms, and is very misunderstood. I think, on the PC, it even
> > does different things with different drivers, and different versions
> of PS. There is a lot of info out there in the archives of
> > other lists.
> > By making sure your source and destination spaces are clearly
> defined and the same, making sure PCM is out of the
> > picture, driver settings are always consistent, and no color
> adjustment is always used in the Epson driver, results should
> > be cross platform. I've produced workflows on the Mac for people on
> PC's without a problem. These curves for Martin's PC
> > were created on a Mac.
> > The PCM issue needs to be addressed though, if I remember right in
> PS 5.x on a PC it actually had to be checked or the
> > monitor profile would be used for source behind your back. Could
> have been the reverse, but I seem to recall it was
> > opposite for the Mac.
> > Confused yet?
> > Tyler
>
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