Digital BW, The Print

But John I think perhaps you are missing the point.  Pick a gamma setting,
say 2.2.  Calibrate your profile with this gamma setting.  Select a PS
workspace, say Gray Gamme 2.2 and away you go.  The issue only appears when
you want to soft proof.  In a colour environment you would set up a soft
proof via View/Proof Setup and use the colour profile of the printer/media
combination you are using.  Since B&W printing mostly uses a Same as Source
method of printing rather than the selection of the printer/media ICC
profile and colorsyncing the workflow, accurate soft proofing has alluded
B&W printing for some time.  It was Tyler Boley I believe who devised a
proofing system using a custom dot gain to preview the image.  Carl
Schofield came upon an ICC based approach that I highlighted to you earlier.
With an accurate method of soft proofing such as the system used by Carl the
selection of gamma is irrelevant.


From: "Johnny Eades" <jeades1@...>

I received several replies to the question as to what many of you
are using your monitor set to---GG 1.8 or GG 2.2; and I may need to
clarify my question as first asked. What do many of you have your
monitor gamma set to?

I understand all the replies that referred to the color management
issues and effect of Gamma on display characteristics. I don't have
a problem with Gamma myself, I was just asking what many of you have
your monitor set to. I realize the glossy paper has a higher D-max
and is therefore going to print the lower tones darker than Matte
paper is ,and I make adjustments to the proof to get the
satisfactory resulting print on glossy. If the shadows are to low, I
raise them to gain printable details relative to the visualized
image.Proofing is simply previewing how the finished print should
look. My criteria is enough body in the shadows to support the
impression there is something visible there.

Your friend in Photography,

Johnny Eades




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