Digital BW, The Print

Back again folks,

I know you are getting tired of me asking the same question, but I 
haven't gotten any answers to it yet. WHAT IS YOUR MONITOR 
CALIBRATED OR SET TO--GG 1.8 OR GG 2.2?

Still your friend in Photography,

Johnny Eades

PS I'll keep asking till someone answers my simple question.




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> 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@s...>
> 
> 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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