Digital BW, The Print

A perfect monitor isn't necessarily central to the process, no matter
how one gets to that perfection. 

If you can previsualize B&W from a color world you can previsualize
from a funky monitor. But if you CAN previsualize, the way
photographers were trained a mere decade or two ago...

As it happens, many people get good results without any calibration.
That's exactly why Photoshop's "Help" prioritizes a Closed Loop
process over Open Loop. 





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> I am surprised you own a computer.  You starve it from helping you
in the
> very manner in which it was intended.
> 
> 
> > From: dlruckus <dlruckus@y...>
>  
> > 
> > Paul.
> > That is essentialy the method I use to print BO with my 1200's,
> > instead of Clayton's workflow, with the exception that it is reversed
> > from yours as my monitor is visualy pretty linear already and I force
> > the papers to match scales instead of the monitor. In my case if the
> > print is ugly, I make the monitor equally ugly and then reverse the
> > curve as you did.
> > There may indeed be fancier($$$$$) ways but I too like to keep the
> > boat afloat and save those dollars for more ink,paper,frames,matts etc
> > etc that can't be obtained with just elbow grease:)
> > 
> > Regards.
> >  Duane