QTR-Quadtone RIP

Thanks for your help Tom & Roy. I will be experimenting over the next 
few days & will let you know how I get on.

Howard

Tom Moore wrote:
> Howard
> 
> I've posted the curves to the files section under
>       UT7-IlfSmoothPearlSplitWC.ZIP
> 
> In general, you can make the toner (or any curve) start at a point higher
> than 0% by using one of the otherwise unused inks and assigning it to the
> same curve at a lower density and setting its limit to zero. You can control
> where your curve starts by adjusting the density of the zero limited ink. If
> you look at the UT7-IlfordSmoothPearl curves in the distribution you'll see
> an example of this method.
> 
> For my split curve I did not use a toner (actually I did but not to create
> the split). I just used the warm light ink (LC) and the cool dark (M) ink as
> if I were creating a regular curve. As in the other ISP curves, I used the
> complementary dark ink (in this case C) as a toner in the deep shadows
> portion of the curve to get the best dmax.
> 
> For matte papers you could use a similar approach using the LC, M and K inks
> to create a warm/cool split. I had in mind to blend the split curve with
> either the warm or cool curves in QTR to move the split point up or down the
> tonal range. Roy's suggestion might be more effective at doing that, but not
> as flexible in that you do it when you create the curve rather than when you
> print.
> 
> Hopefully you'll let us know how your curves turn out (and share them as
> well)
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Tom Moore
> 
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com [mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com] On
>  > Behalf Of Roy Harrington
>  > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:34 PM
>  > To: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
>  > Subject: Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Split toning
>  >
>  > Howard,
>  >
>  > You've got a good start.
>  > Usually a "toner" ink runs all the way into the shadows.  In general
>  > that works
>  > just fine.  But if you'd like it just to match the warm grays, one
>  > simple way is
>  > to just use COPY_CURVE to copy the warm gray curves into the cool gray
>  > curves.
>  > You'll want to reduce all of the grays ink limits since there's twice
>  > as much ink.
>  >
>  > This ought to give you a pretty neutral curve set.  Now just vary the
>  > ink limits
>  > to tilt the hue warm or cool.  Warm highlights means more light warm
>  > less light cool,
>  > and opposite for the dark grays.
>  >
>  > As long as you are doing subtle amounts the transitions should be fine.
>  >
> 
> 
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