Paul First an apology if I am beating this topic to death, but a couple more questions about choosing or creating my ideal lustre set. My aim is Ilford Gold Fibre on 1400 using QTR. My ideal tonality would move from Warm/ Neutral Shadows, Neutral Midtones and up to Cool/Neutral highlights. I note that on the UTRC set, there are 3 separate sets...warm, cool and neutral. But my ideal set is not one temperature...I want a split. I am also making the assumption that the UTRC set are greys...not the strong toner color of the earlier sets. Since the gamma is so good on these lustre papers, seems like warm, cool or neutral shades are plenty strong without distinct color toners. First, my assumption is that these UTRC sets each have same basic degree of color temperature with different dilutions....yes??? So I am wondering if I could start with my black position one of the new PKneutral (black being presumably neutral), 2nd ink a warm dark grey, 3rd a neutral mid grey, and then 4th and 5th warm grey and cool grey toners and a glop as the 6th position. I would rely on the ink overlap to create a transition and use the toners to smooth the transitions. Does this sound like a reasonable idea? If so, please advise how proportionally diluted each ink is in the UTRC set, since MIS does not show patches of these inks. And are these inks diluted with glop? Wondering from your earlier responses if I even need glop position if glop is in the toner positions if the lighter shades are diluted with glop. If these are diluted with glop, then I assume I could buy a bottle of dark grey in warm,neutral and cool to make my own dilutions. I am wanting to move away from the old style Light Cyan and Light Magenta toners towards a more subtle grey toner. Seems like LC & LM are overkill on the lustre papers. Does this approach make sense, assuming I want a subtle split tone. Thanks for you patience with my parade of questions. Phil
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Re: Inks for Lustre papers--a question directed at Paul Roark
2008-08-21 by brouwerkent
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