Digital BW, The Print

Martin,

Are these curves posted somewhere?

Thanks,
Peter Lindman

>\ufffdbut I used their 
>present tritone or quad tone Pantone curves or custom variations of 
>them. These work very nicely if you are willing to move a good 
>distance away from a neutral toned print.

Peter,

They are are actually in Photoshop. Image>Mode>Duotone> 

This takes you to a Duotone Options box.

Then choose either Duotone, Tritone or Quadtone. Try Quadtone. Then 
select "Load" and you will be taken to a choice of different file 
folers containing a variety of curves. I would start with the 
Grayscale curves.

Also checkout:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/duotone.htm

For a nice tutorial on this.

There is also a chapter in Photoshop 5 & 5.5 Artistry by Barry Haynes 
with his curve. I believe there is now a Photoshop 6 version but I 
haven't seen it.

Hope that at least gives you a starting point but keep in mind that 
color calibration of the monitor and monitor to printer is vital to 
success in doing this.

Anyone else have a source for additional curves or some curves of 
their own they would like to share?

Martin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Peter Lindman 
<plindman@q...> wrote:
> 
> Martin,
> 
> Are these curves posted somewhere?
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter Lindman
> 
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