Digital BW, The Print

Quite, but the Windows implementation puts the profile in a binary 
file not a text file. So that Roy will have to provide it.

John

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield 
<scho@m...> wrote:
> 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