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Re: [Digital BW] Archival carbon and split toning

2008-12-04 by John Beeching

Dear Louis,

You can do this easily via QTR with either the OEM or MIS inks.

John

2008/12/4 Louis de Stoutz <loudest@...>

>   In my darkroom days, I did some experimenting with very slight split
> toning, like e.g. warm shadows and cool lights, or cool shadows and warm
> lights.
>
> I would like to be able to do that in an archival quality with carbon.
> As I understand, there is no other way than to add other "things" to the
> carbon, right? If I remember well, people started out adding dyes to
> carbon inks, which doesn't sound very archival to me.
>
> Are there other (pigment based?) solutions on the market, that allow to
> preserve those small, but oh so important nuances over the lifetime of
> the print? Can one compose one's own mixes? Can you then control the
> whole thing in PS?
>
> Thanks for your educative suggestions!
>
> Louis de Stoutz
>  
>



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