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Re: Toning your grayscale images for web or commercial printing

2006-08-16 by zisskar

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley"
<tyler@...> wrote:
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield
> <list@> wrote:
> >
> > Roy,
> > 
> > I've also been using your create-icc script to generate icc profiles  
> > for toning grayscale images and it works very well.
> 
> It does  indeed, and myself as well. Even before Create ICC, we were
> doing this with profiles made from the EyeOne Photo hack, or
> ProfilerPro. All of the images om my website and the gallery section
> of the Custom Digital site were made using an icc profile to show the
> hue of the quad inks selected for the print, even a split-tone by Mel
> Curtis. They were converted to sRGB for the web of course.
> Also, a similar aproached was used to assign the hue of Cone's
> selenium set to an image and then print with UCK3s on SilverRag, and
> it was lovely. Much more atractive than a straight ABW print. You
> could work forever trying to duplicate the look of an inkset with
> curves etc., but a good profile of it will get you all the
> complexities in one simple move.
> There are all kinds of great ways to use profiles, and Create ICC has
> become a great tool here.
> Tyler
> www.custom-digital.com
>

This is all very interesting, but can you please tell me what to do next. 
I've used Carl's HueBlend action profiles and got on screen the
desired hues. What is the recommended workflow for printing them? 
Do I use PS or Qimage and color manage using the media icc profiles or
use QTR and special curves?

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