Digital B&W Toning and Printing

[stumar]

Hi all,

Does anyone know of any good web or book resources that can teach me how to emulate traditional fine art printing techniques in photoshop?

The kind of thing that springs to mind is, Sepia or selenium toning, or the cyanotype process etc.

Many thanks,


Stuart.

 

[mrtoml]

You could try this guy:

http://www.butzi.net/articles/toning.htm

He has a lot of good articles besides this.

I have tried some of his techniques and they are not bad.

One issue with toning in digital black and white is that you may need to have a good colour management system in place (custom printer profiles and monitor calibration etc.) unless you use a RIP or something like advanced black and white mode with Epson K3 printers. Otherwise what you think you see on the screen will come out quite differently on your printer.

 

[stumar]

Many thanks mark! Good site that.

Its an Epson R2400 i use with the K3 inks and its advanced settings are pretty good at cooling or warming the print, i'm getting to grips with it just!

I would just like to find a good digital Cyanotype process now 😉

Cheers

Stuart.

 

[mrtoml]

This guy has a cyanotype action you can download for photoshop (scroll down).

http://www.emanueleferonato.com/category/photoshop/

There are lots of ways of doing it. I have a photoshop curve that does it. Do a google and you will find lots of methods.

The ABW mode on the 2400 is good, but it can't do the sort of split toning that Butzi's method does. But at least it is consistent once you have got the hang of the settings for different papers. I use it all the time.