Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale <stevekale@b...> wrote:
> OK got you.  Then edit as discussed.  Soft proof as discussed.  Prior to
> saving as a tiff for printing, convert to profile QTR Photo or Matte
> depending on media using Perceptual and Black point compensation, save as
> tiff - now you have a QTR Matte (or Photo) tagged file.
> 
> If you are stuck on the Windoze platform and have no other choice EEM curves
> are very close to HPR.

In a very short while, it's the Mac users who are going to feel "stuck" ;) ;)

Steve Billard is adding GUI curve generation to QTRgui. I'm building a neat curve generator that can do curves for QTR, as well as N-channel ICM profiles (N being as high as 16) for another printing application (tease, tease) as well as converting from QTR curves to N-channel ICM and back.

Right now, it's likely Steve Billard's will be debuting sooner. I don't know if he's planning on doing anything for the Mac. All my stuff is in wxWindows, and could (theoretically) compile for a Mac, but I'm only releasing Windows and Linux at this time.

> Most of us use EEM for proofing.  The linearisation
> will be off but not too badly - dMax and dMin are not massively different.
> The bigger issue (and the one I think most users struggle with) is how to
> manage the big tonal compression and it is Roy's addition that gets this
> done well.  Presumably someone, Roy?, ported the existing profiles that were
> in circulation for beginner Mac users over to the Windoze platform.  Given
> HPR profiles exist for Mac users perhaps if you asked nicely that person
> will port them over for PC users.

By "porting", do you mean fixing the ridiculous Mac carriage returns on a text editor?