Digital BW, The Print

Martin,

I should probably be more clear on part of that. When i'm working 
in Levels, in the red and blue channels, doing the toning, I'm 
ONLY moving the center "grey/gamma" triangle point. I leave the 
other ones alone.

> > * Levels>RedChannel: Increase Red.
> > * Levels>BlueChannel: Increase Yellow.

But, having said that, another interesting effect that I used on the 
picture on the front of my site today is to:

when you get done with everything, go into Levels and pull the 
white-point to the left, so you clip off some of the highlights back 
to pure white. (This assumes you've pulled down the highlights 
to non-pure-white with the white point of the blue channel).

Whatever the case, all of these procedures of toning could be 
recorded into Actions that could be uploaded to this site. It would 
be an interesting Print Exchange for everyone to start with the 
same image, and then treat it like you think it should be treated, 
but also record their work into an Action that was uploaded here, 
for others to try and experiment with. It would interesting to see 
what fifteen or twenty people did with the exact same image.

Again, I tone more according to "feeling/gut" rather than some 
precise hold-all-tones mindset. That's another reason why I use 
a color-ink printer; so I don't box myself into a limiting corner.
I'd never want to have to flush out/change inks to tone differently. 
Some battles just aren't worth fighting; only so many hours in the 
day.

MT, http://marktucker.com/