Digital BW, The Print

> Jim,
> 
> I  have a wonderful portrait by Mark from one of the print exchange that he
> did with a color ink set. Wonderful shades of warm brown.

MIS dyes I believe.

>None of the
> current grayscale ink sets will give you the tone you are seeing on Mark's
> site, which I assume is the result of tinting the files and not from
> scanning prints that tone (Mark correct me here if I am wrong.) It certainly
> is possible and I wish we had a nice warm-brown tone ink set available.

There are a variety of ways to tone or tint, levels or curves adjustments,
or hue/saturation (colorize) from RGB files:  duo/tri/quad tone controls
from grayscale files which will sometimes map the tones better in my
opinion, for more depth, richness.  You have to find the best solution for
your own image/taste.
Levels (gamma slider in R G and B) will effect more than tone:  Curves are
great (different points in R G and B) to tone and effect different areas,
you can have more control over the application of tint:  Hue/Saturation can
render a nice overall color cast, but sometimes you lose your blacks (if
that is something you want in a particular image) as color is applied to the
whole... Duo/tri/quads will retain the contrast while mapping color to
specific tones, and there is a lot of play factor with these, you can create
some wonderful prints.

With any method you choose, you may want to save the curve/level/duotone
you've created to load and apply to other images.

Carolyn