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Re: Replicating selenium tones

2002-12-19 by Shilesh Jani <shilesh.jani@smith-nephew.

Try the following:

Convert the grayscale image to RGB.  Do a color adjustment.  Add 
magenta in the shadows, and blue in the highlights. Tweak the color 
sliders until you get a decent match.

Good luck.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "lomoeye 
<james.stogdill@v...>" <james.stogdill@v...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I print with the piezo selenium ink set.  I have set up a custom 
dot 
> gain curve so that my output very closely matches what I see on my 
> monitor in terms of density.  However, I'd like to be able to post 
> digital versions of my work to the web that replicate the selenium 
> tone of the final output.
> 
> I've tried scanning the final print on a flatbed but I'm really not 
> happy with the results.  
> 
> Has anyone out there developed photoshop curves or some other 
method 
> to slightly tweak the RGB values of a B+W image so that it will 
> appear on screen with the subtle selenium tones of the printed 
> output?  Thanks,
> 
> js

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