Digital BW, The Print

I have fond memories of the Paul Strand retrospective in Philadelphia, back
in the early 1970's. As a teenager, I was swept away by his lovely
warm-toned prints, which I later learned, were toned in Gold, and varnished.

No longer having a darkroom, but preferring that "look" above all others, I
have tried to replicate it in Photoshop, and share it with you.

One advantage of this approach is that it does not require any special
quadtone inks. If you want to change the colors, you can adjust them to suit
each different print, ad infinitum.

To see some sample images and download the curves, see
http://home.attbi.com/~suryasoft/photos/bronze.htm

For a nice tutorial on duotones, quadtones, etc, see the Luminous Landscape
web site at http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/duotone.shtml. I
started out on this path by trying to imporve on his Selenium quadtones.

Best wishes,

Ken Lee

Ken, nice look, just downloaded it and tried it on an old photo that 
I am restoring and just the look I have been trying to get. Much 
thanks

Vinny
http://www.wulfsden.com


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Ken Lee" <heliar@a...> 
wrote:
> I have fond memories of the Paul Strand retrospective in 
Philadelphia, back
> in the early 1970's. As a teenager, I was swept away by his lovely
> warm-toned prints, which I later learned, were toned in Gold, and 
varnished.
> 
> No longer having a darkroom, but preferring that "look" above all 
others, I
> have tried to replicate it in Photoshop, and share it with you.
> 
> One advantage of this approach is that it does not require any 
special
> quadtone inks. If you want to change the colors, you can adjust 
them to suit
> each different print, ad infinitum.
> 
> To see some sample images and download the curves, see
> http://home.attbi.com/~suryasoft/photos/bronze.htm
> 
> For a nice tutorial on duotones, quadtones, etc, see the Luminous 
Landscape
> web site at http://www.luminous-
landscape.com/tutorials/duotone.shtml. I
> started out on this path by trying to imporve on his Selenium 
quadtones.

> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Ken Lee

Ken - Many thanks for making your bronze quadtone available.  Prints are 
gorgeous using the Epson 2200.

Carl

For Ken or Carl

I am sure this is a stupid question.  But, for printing quadtone images do you 
recommend converting to RGB from quadtone before sending it to the Epson 
printer, or will the print driver just convert it on its own.  That is, is there any 
difference printing in RGB or quadtone mode ?

By the way, I concur that tones are beautiful with your modified quadtone 
preload.  

Final question, anyone have any other quadtone curves to create digitial 
platinum effect.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "lawrencetrek" <ltitle@h...> wrote:
> For Ken or Carl
> 
> I am sure this is a stupid question.  But, for printing quadtone images do you 
> recommend converting to RGB from quadtone before sending it to the 
Epson 
> printer, or will the print driver just convert it on its own.  That is, is there any 
> difference printing in RGB or quadtone mode ?
> 
Lawrence - I converted to RGB mode after the quadtone conversion.