Re: CMY separations with Photoshop/Epson Photo EX


arkins@banet.net
Mon, 24 May 1999 23:59:07 -0400


Dear Dave:

Thanks so much! Enjoyed your article on low contrast development of lith
film in Post Factory Photography.

I am curious -- is your name Indonesian in origin, or perhaps Finnish?

Joe Arkins
-----Original Message-----
From: FotoDave@aol.com <FotoDave@aol.com>
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Date: Monday, May 24, 1999 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: CMY separations with Photoshop/Epson Photo EX

>In a message dated 5/23/99 10:17:08 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>arkins@banet.net writes:
>
>> The cyan and yellow records had very little image detail (texture, etc.)
in
>> them; most of the detail was carried in the magenta record. (The scene
>> photographed was an outdoor portrait with grass in the background.)
>
>It is hard to tell without seeing the actual separation negatives, but it
>sounds normal to me. The cyan and yellow would give your the green, and the
>magenta (the complement of green) would define the shading.
>
>> Another question I have is which color does one print each negative of a
>CMY
>> set in? Is cyan printed with blue pigment, yellow in yellow, magenta in
>red -
>> - as opposed to an RGB set, where the red is printed in cyan, the green
in
>> magenta and the blue in yellow?
>
>Yes.
>
>
>Dave S
>



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