Digital BW, The Print

John,

Yes, it should be possible to make a stronger "Cold selenium" profile 
and a mild "neutral-selenium" profile and then blend the two to get the 
desired level of selenium toning.  Alternatively, you could also 
develop a single custom profile with the precise tone you are looking 
for.  The latter approach might also give better control over the 
distribution of toning from highlights to shadows with a custom toning 
curve.

Carl

On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at 08:49  AM, johnglodge wrote:

> Carl, this is true in the Mac implementation but in the recent
> Windows XP case the profiles are binary (well sort of) files that
> are not obviously amenable to editing.
>
> Yes I agree looking at the txt Mac profiles that the differences are
> quite subtle.
>
> This then means that there is not a definite Selenium profile in
> either (MAc or PC) case so that two profile merging as is the case
> with Sepia or Warm(which is more or less a diluted Sepia) is not
> available for Selenium tones.
>
> The way I see it there are currently two very subtlely different
> base positions (Cool or CoolSe) and two points in the same direction
> Warm followed by Sepia. So that a very good range of excellent
> control from Sepia to neutral B&W can be obtained but with very
> little control in the Selenium direction.
>
> What would be needed to round this would be a "cold"_Selenium
> followed by a Selenium. I am sure that there is quite a bit of work
> to get it to the level of quality there there is so far so perhaps
> it is somewhere in the future.
>
> John