Digital BW, The Print

I don't know LOL.  You'll have to ask Roy Harrington and I guess Steve Billiard, who I think did the GUI.

  However---this is what I did yesterday and today at someone else's suggestion.  I took the papers I was considering (I have quite a few sample packs and left over papers) and did a 21 step wedge in gray-LAB, saved as my master, then did a conversion of it to gray-matte and gray-photo.  I made the ramp sized to get about 6 on a page easily.  I then would choose a paper, choose a warm and a cool version curve and start at the top of the page on the left with 100% warm--print it (you can drag an image around in the GUI image window to place where you want of simply type in the location--based on from the top and left of the paper).  Then I selected the same ramp, placed it so that it would print below the first one, choose a 75/25 blend of the curve, print it, conitnue to do the same with a 50/50, 40/60, 25-75 and finally a 100% of the cool curve which would be directly across from the 100% warm curve.  I would then label the paper with the paper type, whether I increased the ink limit, and label each ramp--the curve, the percentage.  I did 11 of these different papers with warm to cool curves and have they will be my reference for the future.  

Diane
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 6:35 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Problems with QTR



  Thanks, Diane, ooops..found the solution to my problem. Had the Tiff 
  Image Compression setting at "jpeg" rather than "none". Now it seems 
  to work just fine, which leads me to my next question about the QTR.

  Why is there NO image preview on the GUI to show you the changes you 
  make when moving to sliders to adjust Gamma adjustments or curves?
  How does one know which setting to use?



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