Digital BW, The Print

Hi Tim,

Best thing would be to haul out a darkroom selenium toned print and
then, using a color balance curve adjustment (on its own layer) fiddle
with the blue, magenta, and red sliders until you get a tone that
matches it. If your printer, inks and paper are profiled, you should get
a nearly dead on neutral print with the sliders set to 0. By tweaking
the above colors, you should be able to match that selenium color
exactly. It won't take much of a tweak, probably no more than 4 or 5
points of any color, and maybe only 2 or 3.

You could also try the number 4 purple duotone in the adobe canned
duotones. This is supposedly the selenium duotone, but how it works will
depend on your printer, inks, and paper profile.

jerry

In my case, with an 1160 and MIS inks, Photo Matte paper, I use 3
magenta and 1 blue, and it comes quite close to selenium. Of course
there are many shades of selenium, depending on how strong your toner
was and how long you left the print in the toner!  And then there's metamerism......





tyork1946 wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>  I would like to correspond with anyone using these inks to print
> selenium-toned prints. There are a number of ways to simulate
> selenium toning apparently and I would like to discuss the methods
> you use to achieve this. Also which papers you might be using etc.
> Thank you.
> 
> Tim
> 
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