Digital BW, The Print

Steve,

Both products are fantastic and give the same high quality output.  
They use the same gimp engine for output, so if you have identical 
profiles, you should get identical output.  

I settled on IJC/OPM because I prefer the flexibility, power and user 
interface for profile creation.  It has some neat features that I 
love.  Here is a link to the tutorial if you want more information.

http://www.bowhaus.com/contributors/contributor.htm

IJC/OPM works with 8 and 16 bit grayscale and RGB images, in TIF, JPG 
and PSD formats.  QTR may also, but I don't remember.  IJC/OPM also 
has a set of sliders, similar to Photoshop's channel mixer, which 
allows you to adjust RGB images on the fly so you can blend channels 
for final output.  Unlike PS, this feature also has a checkbox that 
maintains overall luminosity when moving sliders, which is very 
handy.  You can also apply different profiles to different portions 
of the image using alpha channels, so one part of the image could be 
neutral B&W, while other portions are cool, warm, sepia, etc.  You 
can apply 7 profiles in a single image using alpha channels.

Both programs are excellent.  It just depends on how you want to work 
and the feature set you need.

Lou



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "steveh0607" 
<steveh060758@m...> wrote:
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> For those who have used both QTR and IJC/OPM: What are the Pro's 
and Con's of each 
> beyond cost?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve