The a*s and b*s of sepia and cool selenium
2005-08-12 by Steve Kale
Hi I am playing around with some curves for my 4800 and am a little stuck on cool selenium's desired tone. Presumably with a cool curve we want a direct shift into CIELab's negative b (blue) territory (with relatively neutral a). For sepia, a shift to +b (yellow) and +a (red) or thereabouts. How would one describe, in these terms, the difference between warm and sepia? Now coolse. I assume this is really a shift to -b (blue) but with a hint of +a (red) but I don't have a good benchmark to compare against. Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated. Steve