Digital BW, The Print

Diane, I went to this site, but what he is calling a selenium tone, is
actualy a sepia tone. You cannot get a selenium tone with yellow ink. It
is a Purple/blue color that should be used with the black, not yellow.

Jerry




Diane Fields wrote:
> 
> There is also a nice setting for selenium toned duotones at  http://www.luminous-landscape.com/duotone.htm  Scroll to the bottom.
> 
> Diane
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>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Jerry Olson
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 12:32 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Digital BW] re: MIS archival color inks
> 
>   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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