Digital BW, The Print

Martin,

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Martin Wesley" 
<mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "TerryR" 
<terryr1028@h...> 
> wrote:


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And if I want to see the toning effects prior 
> > to printing the preview profile I made from Profiler RGB will get 
> you 
> > close (I still haven't tweaked the first one I made yet).
> 
> Could you elaborate on this a bit? Are you using the Profiler RGB 
> built profile with Photoshop's Softproof function?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin

Martin,

What I did was use Profiler RGB to create a preview only profile. You 
turn it on using the softproof function. When Pauls curves are 
applied, you see the print as it will print with the toning intact 
(no funky colors covering your image!). I really need to tweak it 
some more, I only made the one profile using the default settings 
when generating the profile, but it is close. You need to turn it 
back off though before you print if you are following Pauls workflow 
(I think, never really tested that part of it). I was hoping that it 
could be used to help generate the curves for the different papers as 
well, but as I said I think it will need a little more work to serve 
that purpose well.

I think Todd tried it, but didn't have much luck, he thought that 
maybe his scanner wasn't doing the job. I really wanted to make the 
profile available here, but Colorvision has that whole licensing 
issue. I use an Epson 1600 to create my profiles with at this point. 
Paul uses the same scanner, but he ends up with settings that are far 
from mine for comparable scans - so I don't know if there is that big 
of a spread in these scanners, or if it has more to do with the 
driver, he is using a much older version than mine.

Terry