Digital BW, The Print

my thoughts and comments in-line...
--- sauganashkid <donald.johnson8@...> wrote:

>  I find the HELP information jargon on CURVE
> CREATION in QTRgui to 
> be generally incomprehensible. 

How did you find "Beyond the Zone System" the first
time you read it? 

Like any new system this takes time until you truly
understand and can apply it. Have you read any of the
papers on curve creation? 

> Not that it would do
> me much good 
> even if I could understand it because I don't have a
> densitometer or 
> spectrophotometer which I believe are essential
> tools required for 
> creating accurate curves.

It can also be done with a flat bed scanner with less
accurate but probably quite usable results.

snip...
> I get what I consider to be
> acceptable quality 
> neutral tone ptints. What I'm wondering is, could I
> do any better if 
> I had custom made curves specifically generated for
> the two papers I 
> actually use in place of the canned curves for Epson
> Enhanced Matte 
> Paper? 

Acceptable quality is a good start. What you can get
with a custom curve depends on how much effort you put
into the custom curve and (perhaps even more
importantly) what you feel your current prints lack.

>Is there any possibility that the family of
> curves that came 
> with QTR will be expanded in the future to include
> Velvet Fine Art 
> and Watercolor Paper? 

This depends on the interest level and generosity of
the Roy and his collaborators or the QTR user
community. Certainly one way for it to happen is to
learn enough to create the curves you need and donate
them to the group.

> Is there any one who has
> created custom curves 
> for these papers who would be willing to share them
> with others who 
> for one reason or another aren't capable of doing
> the job for 
> themselves? Is there any particular place one can go
> to to find 
> other custom curves that can be downloaded and used
> with QTR?

The QuadToneRip yahoo group aspires to be that place. 
Curves for for other papers have been contributed by
Carl and others. Perhaps the ones you need will be
contributed at some point. What can you do to forward
that effort?
 
> 

Guy


		
__________________________________ 
Do you Yahoo!? 
Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. 
http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250