Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@...> wrote:
>
> 
> I've come to see split tones as a useful profiling tool that is easy 
to
> over-do.  When the tonal differences become obvious to the viewer, it 
starts
> to look like a gimmick.  As such, I tend to limit the amount of the 
tonal
> shifts to the point where the viewer really is not that aware of them.

I'm just in the very beginning of my "split-tone journey", but I second 
your point. Apart from the very subtle, indeed hardly noticable, 
effects I found most of my test results rather tacky. Some of the 
subtle ones were very powerful though, indeed adding some of 
this "magic 3-dimensionality" 

Joost