Digital BW, The Print

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:19:53PM -0400, Ben Rosengart wrote:

>   Ilford Smooth Pearl
>   neutral tone
> 
>   now: PKN, UT2-LM replacing sepia, sliders
>   before: Eboni (not used, I think), stock UT2 set, curves
> 
> My first print under the new regime came out with blocked up shadows,
> and far too cool.

I didn't convert my RGB file to grayscale before printing.  You
wrote that that was necessary at
<http://home1.gte.net/res09aij/Monotone_Curves.htm>.  Perhaps that
was the problem.  I will report back when I've had a chance to test
this hypothesis.

-- 
 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