On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:33:05 +0200 Richard Foley <rich.inud at naktiv.net> wrote:
> Hi John, > > Thanks for your reply. > > I'm not sure we're talking about quite the same thing. This is > probably because I haven't explained myself properly. I am not > trying to set up a "rich black" spot colour which I can use for type > or for black boxes, or something like that. I'm trying to increase > the visual contrast of slightly "knocked back" photographs, by > increasing the depth of black in the photograph, when printed. > > It's possible I can't actually get any more black than I've already > got from LSI. The glossy cover, for instance, looks just fine. > However the inside pages look a little "soft". It's might be partly > because of the printing on to matt paper, but not being a media guru, > I'm not entirely certain... > > So, just to clarify, I'm trying to increase the contrast of the > images, and think this might be done by making the black, wherever > black appears in a photograph, a bit denser. Does this make sense, > and are we talking about the same thing here? > The tools for making black more dense are in Gimp or Krita. Unfortunately Gimp only works in RGB color model. Krita will work in either color model. I'll see if I can increase contrast in a B/W graphic in Krita. Krita is a KDE tool. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Police Procedural and Expose: "Death Wore Black" "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
