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Re: Flesh tone to shadow transition jagged/ugly. Why?

2005-06-21 by Clayton Jones

Hello Neil,

>I have been BO printing for over a year. 2200, Ebony and EEM 
>or PR.  I thought that maybe I was asking alot of one ink to 
>make a smooth transition so I got UT7.  Same, different, I 
>don't know.  I get get either ink set to do the same thing.

I do those linds of portraits and BO makes the ransitions ok, it's not
that.  In general this sort of thing is caused by too rapid
transitions, such as a curve that's too steep.



>I've seen it with D2H and D70 files.  I upsize them in CS a 
>little at a time...

Does the problem appear in prints from the non-resized files?

Regards,
Clayton


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