Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley" 
<tyler@t...> wrote:
> thanks, I should just bite the bullet and buy colorshop, been dinking
> around with their demos in various versions for way too long.
> Know of anything that will easily build plots like this-
> http://photoshopnews.com/stories/images/BW-Chronicles/ultrasmooth-
linearity.png
> from data files? Or do i need to just build them by hand?
> Tyler
> 


I know of nothing that will make a graph like that. That almost has to 
be something from a database. You could probably build that in Excel or 
similar, so you would still need to be able to export the data to some 
form of delimited file. I'll post a screen cap. of the closest thing 
that ColorshopX can do, but it doesn't have the values, and to get 
there you would need to make a profile out of the measurements. All the 
tools for making that profile are within Colorshop. The profile is 
nothing more than the kTRC tag, and from only ten points (one full 
black, another paper white), so it would only be somewhat accurate. It 
does work though.

Now if you were a real pro with Excel, I bet you could have Colorshop 
directly export to the "front" application (Excel) while measuring the 
patches, and have it build the graph as you measure. But that's WAY 
beyond my knowledge of Excel.

And it might be nice to see that same graph in a 3D plot, to see how 
far off the neutrality is... That density curve could be switching from 
black to blue to green and back to black for all we know ;-)