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Re: adjusting tone for the effect of glass?

2004-12-05 by Jason DeFontes

If you want to drop about a hundred bucks a sheet for it you could use
something like Denglas or Tru Vue:

http://www.denglas.com/prod/framing/antireflective.html

In my short framing career I had the pleasure of using it exactly
once, and the stuff is pretty amazing. It practically disapears.

A more practical alternative might be one of the acrylic glazing
products like ACRYLITE, I think it has less of a color bias than the
cheap glass does, and has the advantage of not breaking (though it is
harder to keep clean without scratching it).

The only adjusting I do is to adjust myself to that fact that I can't
afford the good stuff... if I'm going to spend crazy money on glass,
it's going to be to hang on the front of my camera.

-Jason

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Douglas Meeuwsen
<lipshurt@m...> wrote:
> I was just having a heck of a time trying to get two prints to
match 
> tone. (Ut2 on a 1280). One is velvet fine art, and the other photo
rag. 
> I made about 6 prints trying the get the photo rag not to warmer
than 
> the velvet.....then I figured out that the velvet print was in a
frame 
> under glass. I was using identical matt boards, and I had the matt 
> laying over the the PR print. The velvet print was 12x15, and the
PH.R 
> print was 8x10. Finally figured it out when I laid the smaller
print on 
> top of the larger mounted print and saw that the glass had totally 
> changed the color of the matt board. The print under glass looked 
> better. (The reason one had glass and the other did not was because
I 
> broke it.....).....so anyway, I never hear much about the effect of 
> glass on the color of a print. this is cheap glass from michaels,
so 
> maybe that is an issue also.......DM

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