Digital BW, The Print

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 02:59:19PM -0400, Ben Rosengart wrote:
> 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.

Nope.  I'm back to printing with RGB curves for now, since I'm getting
consistently good results with that system.  This means I get no benefit
from the second LM, but it doesn't sound like that's a dramatic benefit
in any case.

-- 
 Ben Rosengart                                          ben@...
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