How to print black and white on pcstitch
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- #HOW TO PRINT BLACK AND WHITE ON PCSTITCH FULL#
- #HOW TO PRINT BLACK AND WHITE ON PCSTITCH PRO#
- #HOW TO PRINT BLACK AND WHITE ON PCSTITCH SOFTWARE#
I use this curve adjustment similarly to how I’d use a Levels adjustment, by moving the black point and white point output sliders and controlling the toe and shoulder of the curve to prevent any abrupt tonal shifts. I do my final tonal edits with a new local adjustment layer called Final Printing Adjustment, using a curve adjustment and an inverted mask ( you can see my previous post on the Phase One blog to see how I use Curves in Local Adjustments). Now I am ready to do any final brightness and contrast adjustments with one last Local Adjustment layer and Luma curve. That isn’t critical, but I want to see it more in the center of the display with slightly more white space around the image. The default setting is 25 and I change it to 32. I also change the proof margins to have a little more white background showing. It will also make the shadows appear darker than when it was previewed with the darker background. That will give you a new white point as a reference for the brightest areas in your image. I go to Preferences, choose Appearance and change the background color to white (I’d prefer a 2% gray, but white will do just as well here). To lessen the need for additional proofing and reprints, there are two things I do to make sure the overall brightness is correct before sending it to the printer. Having that bright white reference point is going to make your prints seem really dark if they were previewed with the default dark interface only. Unless you are printing completely to the edge of the paper, you are going to have some paper white, or mat board, or white gallery walls around your prints.
#HOW TO PRINT BLACK AND WHITE ON PCSTITCH PRO#
The Capture One Pro 9 default dark gray interface is great for long hours of editing, but when it becomes time to print black and white, you might be surprised at how dark your images look when compared to a lighter background border. I’m glad we no longer have to work in dimly lit offices looking at CRT displays for all those hours of editing, and a normal room light with those settings should be fine.
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A good place to start for a normal room with normal room lighting is around 105 cd/m2.
#HOW TO PRINT BLACK AND WHITE ON PCSTITCH FULL#
Our eyes tend adjust for the dimmer environment naturally after being in the gallery for a short while, and if there is a room full of Edward Weston prints that all have a similar range of tones, they will look consistent and beautiful.īut, we are not Edward Weston, so we better get the monitor settings right. Now people always complain that museums light his work too dimly (mostly for preservation and conservation purposes) and that they are always too hard to see. Dody Thompson, Edward Weston’s last assistant and a fantastic photographer in her own right, wrote about Edward bringing his prints out of the darkroom and evaluating them under a bright skylight. One of the most important things is getting your brightness correct, so that your adjustment will be accurately reflected when viewing the print under normal conditions. There are a few things to keep in mind when creating your settings. This should go without saying, but having consistent color and brightness settings for your display will make the editing and printing process easier and more repeatable. Setting up your Capture One Pro 9 Workspace for Printing Display calibration:
#HOW TO PRINT BLACK AND WHITE ON PCSTITCH SOFTWARE#
But, with the quality of files that you are capable of getting from Capture One Pro 9, there might be less of a need for that additional work in Photoshop, and with some images it might be possible to skip other processing, resizing, and sharpening software altogether before printing.ĭownload free 30-day trial of Capture One Pro 9īefore I print in Capture One Pro 9, there are a few things that I do to set up the interface and tools that allow more control and ease in making those final adjustments before printing. There are things that can be done in Photoshop with selections and masks, and advanced sharpening workflows that cannot be done in Capture One Pro 9. I have done a few months of comparisons between printing from Capture One Pro 9 directly and exporting tiffs from Capture One Pro 9 to doing additional work in Photoshop.