Digital BW, The Print

Steve,

Do you "need" to do curve creation? No.  Not if you  are satisfied 
with your results.   The main reasons for using it is to create 
profiles customized to your printer, ink and paper combinations.  If 
you are using a setup for which profiles already exist, you may see 
only limited improvement making your own.  It will depend on your 
printer.  My printer prints very well with the "canned" profiles.  
This is basaed on densitometer readings compared to the "ideal" 
densities listed in Tom Moore's tutorial.  Where the curve creator 
may be most useful is for papers or inks that profiles don't exist 
for.

With that said, the process of creating curves reads worse than it 
is.  Instead of reading the tutorial, start doing it step by step.  
Follow the directions carefully.  Do be aware you need a scanner, or 
densitometer of spectro.  

Hope this helps.

Peter