Digital BW, The Print

Paul, (or others...)

A curiosity I have with the approach outlined in Tyler's approach is 
its ability (or inability) to work with the Conetech Piezography 
plugin in Photoshop.

I have played with this approach on numeroous occasions without any 
success. I have found that I need to actually load (hit the OK 
button) in the colour preferences and set the custom dot-gain as my 
greyscale working space.

Obviously, the result of this is images appear on screen and print 
fine within MY closed Photoshop system, however, in order to move 
images outside of the system I need to convert to RGB, for example, 
to re-map the tonal values back into something more mainstream.

Being able to move this custom dot-gain "transfer function" from the 
frontend of Photoshop to the backend has definate benefits. 
Unfortunately, I have had NO success while using the Piezography 
plugin. Has anyone else overcome this problem...

regards
Craig 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
>
> 
> Here is the guts of Tyler's post:
>......................
> working spaces, scroll gray up to "custom dot gain".
> 3) Adjust the curve so that the image on the monitor matches your
> print, name the curve in the space provided. Click OK.
> 4) You should now see your curve as the gray working space, click on
> it and scroll up to save gray, it should automatically
> have selected your colorsync profile folder on the Mac, no idea
> where it goes on a PC, hopefully PS automatically brought up the
> right location by default. No need to rename it, save.
> 5) You should now still have the color settings box open, don't hit
> ok! Hit cancel so all you working spaces will remain as
> before, this new curve will only be used for preview.
> 6) Go to View/ Proof setup/ Custom. Scroll down to the bottom, your
> new curve should be there, select it. Check "preserve
> Color Numbers", unlike previewing with color profiles. Hit ok."
> 
>...........
> 
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com