Digital BW, The Print

Hello, 
I print UT7 on a 2100. On Premium Semigloss I get very good results
with "cool", actually they look very neutral. As I find the carbon
(let alone the Sepia) curve too warm for my taste I would like to have a
slightly warmed up curve - same tone as with BO printing. 

I could print BO for a warm tone, however the transitions in BO are
not as smooth as I like them to be, specially in the darker greys. 

Is there an easy way to tweak the curves to get a mix of "cool" and
carbon"=?

Regards, Bernie

One thing you can try is applying the neutral curve to one image, and 
the warm curve to a copy of the image. Then put the copy on a separate 
layer over the cool one and play with the transparency.

If you like the results it's fairly simple to make a new curve using the 
values from the mixture of the two previous ones. I'll combine and 
linearize them for you if you mail me the combination you'd like to have 
as a curve.

Not all curves combine well in this manner though, but sometimes it 
works well, and it can be less intimidating than tweaking the curves 
directly.

You could also check out QuadToneRIP. It will let you combine the 
profiles any way you want.

--
Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no


Bernie Ess wrote:

> Hello, 
> I print UT7 on a 2100. On Premium Semigloss I get very good results
> with "cool", actually they look very neutral. As I find the carbon
> (let alone the Sepia) curve too warm for my taste I would like to have a
> slightly warmed up curve - same tone as with BO printing. 
> 
> I could print BO for a warm tone, however the transitions in BO are
> not as smooth as I like them to be, specially in the darker greys. 
> 
> Is there an easy way to tweak the curves to get a mix of "cool" and
> carbon"

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Staver
<daniel@p...> wrote:
> Not all curves combine well in this manner though, but sometimes it 
> works well, and it can be less intimidating than tweaking the
curves 
> directly.

Thanks, I will try this blending technique out (and send you the
blending results then).
 
> You could also check out QuadToneRIP. It will let you combine the 
> profiles any way you want.

Well I dont really understand how QTR works, but my impresson is that
on the PC there are only the UC profiles at this time, nothing for UT7
yet.

At least in this case I dont understand how to work with that.

Thanks, Bernie

> Well I dont really understand how QTR works, but my impresson is that
 > on the PC there are only the UC profiles at this time, nothing for UT7
 > yet.

I have made UT7 profiles for QTR:
http://download.petraflux.com/qtr_ut7_profiles.zip (1,81kb)

--
Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no

> I have made UT7 profiles for QTR:
 > http://download.petraflux.com/qtr_ut7_profiles.zip (1,81kb)

I've updated the zip file with .quad files needed for the Windows 
version. The previous one only had text files that had to be processed 
by Roy's profiling tools on either Mac or Linux.

--
Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no