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Re: [Digital BW] Need help refining Roark VM workflow on 1280

2002-01-09 by Moreno Polloni

> Moreno, are you doing this in the transfer curve dialogue box?
>
> Jerry
>
> And this is giving you deeper blacks and no posterization?
>
> I'm always looking for deeper blacks!

No. In the RGB portion of the curve itself. I've yet to print out a
greyscale and check for colour uniformity throughout the tonal range.

I was getting elevated shadow values, so that areas which should print as
black or almost black were printing 70% or so. As you can imagine, without
very much shadow depth and contrast the images would be a bit flat. I moved
input value 14 to 8, and input value 138 to 120. This works for me.

There's still a bit of posterization left in some mid and upper tones, which
I'll try to get sorted out in the next day or two.

As far as black values go, I don't think I'm getting deeper blacks, but more
deeper shadows in the image, so that I have a pretty good match with what I
see on my screen.

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