Digital BW, The Print

Ben,

As a matter of fact, an image just came out of the 2200 with a split tone.

Here is my procedure.  

(The reason I work this way is, in part, because the tone curves tend to
have problems if they are not on the top layer, and, in part, because I
regularly work with duplicate images and cloning.  So, this procedure is
fast and familiar to me.  There are no doubt other ways to do it.)

First I make a selection of what areas I want, for example, cool.  I save
the selection, of course.  In the one I just printed the selection had large
areas of feathering or less than 100% opacity (of the mask).  

Second, I make a duplicate image -- both should be converted to RGB before
the curves are applied.  

Third, I apply the cool curve to the duplicate and the warm curve to the
original.  

Fourth I align the clone tool at (.001, .001) or whatever your "Information"
palette says the upper left hand corner of the image is.  Have the clone
tool at one pixel for this.

Fifth I set the clone tool to 100% hardness and the largest size and with a
single sweep, I clone the entire duplicate, cool-colored image over onto the
warm-original, but it only gets through the mask/selection to the extent of
the transparency.  If you do the sweep in more than one continuous motion,
the amount that gets through the mask will be duplicated in the feathered
areas.

I then have an original that is warm-colored (false color, of course) where
the mask was opaque, or to the extent of the opacity, and cool-colored where
the selection let the clone tool do its cloning. 

Finally, I print the image on, in this case, a 2200 with UT7 inks, using the
usual settings.  (The curves have already been applied.)  

If you save the colored image, name it in a way that reminds you what
printer and inkset it is set up for.  I usually don't save the color image,
but I definitely do save the selection.  

It works and is really not that difficult.  (This is one trick the C86 can't
do.)

Hope this helps.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com 




> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ben
> Rosengart
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 5:58 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Newbie question - what is duotone?
> 
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 06:15:38PM -0700, Paul Roark wrote:
> >
> > With non-feathered selections you can apply one curve in one area, and a
> > second curve in the inverse selection area.  With feathered selections,
> I've
> > had better luck making a duplicate image, applying one curve to each,
> and
> > then cloning over from one to the other in one 100% sweep.
> 
> Can you explain that last step a little more explicitly?  Is it
> just a copy and paste of the entire image?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
>  Ben Rosengart                                          ben@...
>        "Young people should be seen and not heard, because they're
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>         but we're ugly." -- Grace Slick on the '60s youth movement
>