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Re: UT 3D split printing workflow

2008-03-06 by arcibombolina

> First I create a cool and a warm curve (involving only three inks 
> each). Next I create a selnium curve with for the LK tones a mix of 
> cool and warm LK and the selenium toner for the LLK tones the selenium 
> toner. Finally I create a neutral curve that is mainly a hybrid of the 
> warm and cool curves, but on some papers (recently I did Photo Rag) I 
> add a bit of selenium toner to get it dead neutral (fractional Lab a 
> and b values). 
> 
> In QTR you can easily do the split toning with the slider menu. Perhaps 
> in theory you don't need a neutral curve, but in practice it's very 
> handy.
> 

I'll try this workflow, it seems a bit hard to me, but sounds good

> But while writing this I realize you made a worrying remark about not 
> color managing your files.

Yes, I mean if I want to print through photoshop, as ut3d are meant to
do (if I'm not wrong), and I want to split tone my images as shown
here : http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Split_tone.pdf
I need to work in rgb and print it as an rgb image, and here are my
doubts : I'm not able to achieve the split toning without altering
totally the luminosity of the image (when I print) (it gets deeply
darker), so I assume I'm making some big mistake, but where???

thx again

sab

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