Digital BW, The Print

Ferdinand,

That's my feeling as far as QTR and the 'tint' layer--it just very slightly tints/warms and won't do anything for printing with QTR since it will be converted to a grayscale (to add an adjustment layer of hue/saturation/lightness, you have to make it an RGB anyhow).  I like using his channel layers with masking and the dodge/soft light layers work pretty well, but I also like to use a new layer (hit alt and new layer icon at same time--it brings up a dialog box where I choose 'overlay' and check the box for fill with 50% gray) and use a very low opacity brush (7-9%) in white or black to dodge and burn very selectively rather than globally.  

He's in Beirut, Lebanon right now but when he returns I will ask him to expound on the uses for each of these layers as he sees it.  IMO--they act pretty much as a globally added dodge and burn (which you can use masks to apply where you want).

Diane

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ferdinand_paris 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 9:36 AM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Conversion to Greyscale Methods



  What I'd like is a clearer explanation of the steps that Petteri
  Sulonen is using in his "printing" phase:

  http://194.100.88.243/petteri/pont/How_to/n_Digital_BW/a_Digital_Black_and_White.html?page=4

  He doesn't explain the purpose of each of the layers.  I assume that
  the tint layer is fairly useless if you're going to print using QTR.

  F_P



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