Digital BW, The Print

Todd,

The problem may be in how you opened the 21-step file and how you 
responded to the profile dialog box. My main computer is apart and I 
can't check but go back a try a different path to bring the image 
into PS.

Martin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Todd Flashner <tflash@e...> 
wrote:
> Okay, I'm tying to do it, but it doesn't seem to be working. I'm in 
Color
> Settings, I use the Grayscale Working Space dropdown menu and 
choose Custom
> Dot Gain. But as I adjust the curve, I see my little layer masks 
icons
> change, but not the image itself. The other time I tried it I saw 
the color
> swatches of my swatch pallet change, but not the image. What could 
I be
> doing wrong?
> 
> Todd
> 
> 
> > ---Todd, monitor calib is separate from all this: This is a 
profile that tells
> > PS 
> > what RGB values to give the monitor for whatever it is 
displaying, be it RGB,
> > gray or CMYK. 
> > What the Custom Dot Gain curve (PS 6) does is tell photoshop to 
display gray
> > values according to how they will print. So, you can put up an 
image and a
> > print made from it and fiddle with the  custom gray curve (in 
color settings)
> > until the two match. Then you save that and name it for the 
printing system
> > you 
> > calibrated to. You can save as many as you have ink/paper combos. 
Next time
> > you have a grayscale file you load the custom dot gain curve for 
the ink/paper
> > you intend to print on. It will tell you exactly how it looks 
before you
> > print.
> > 
> > When you use a printing profile in Piezo, that profile does a set 
of tonal
> > adjustments internally to compensate for the paper. 
It "linearizes" the
> > process 
> > so to speak, so that 15% gray will be 15% across all sorts of 
papers (one
> > profile to each paper).
> > In practice, as you know we mix and match profiles and papers. 
So, whatever
> > the profile does, that's great, but we only really care about the 
final print.
> > After 
> > a print is made, on the specific paper, profile, ink, printer 
etc, then we
> > make 
> > that Custom Dot Gain that accounts for the whole lot and gives us 
a perfect
> > preview. At least that's one way of working.
> > 
> > Antonis