Digital BW, The Print

The workflow is the same for Mac or PC except for the final output which I
understand must be Tiff for PC.  First of all change your workspace to QTR
Gray Lab (from Gray Gamma 2.2 or whatever).  With an existing image which is
tagged gray gamma 2.2 you need to decide right from the beginning of the new
workflow whether to "convert to" or to "assign" QTR Gray LAB.  Roy outlines
the difference in his instructions and so there is no need for me to repeat
here but if you have an image which you already liked the look of on screen
before then "convert" it to the new space (it will now be tagged QTR Gray
Lab).  Edit if need be to get an on screen image you want.  So now you have
your generic image - before paper specific factors.  Now look at the image
with either a Photo Paper soft proof or a Matte Paper soft proof as I
described.  What you are looking at now is pretty much how the final image
will be printed with respect to illuminance, not hue.  We tend to focus on
illuminance and so this is ok - we already know if we want it warm or cold
etc.  Make any paper specific changes and print in the normal fashion
(presumably saving it as a tiff if that is required).  Just don't overwrite
the "generic" image because you may want to print on Photo paper later for
example and don't want any matte paper specific changes to flow through.


> From: Chris Hargens <chargens@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:03:12 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: QTR settings with Hahnemuehle Photo Rag
> 
> 
> 
> I'm not clear about this would be done on a PC. Would I first edit in
> the L workspace, skip the softproof, and then save the tif after
> converting it to the Gray Matte Paper profile, as Roys instructions
> seem to suggest? Or do I softproof using the Gray Matte Paper profile
> and THEN convert?
> 
> Chris