It's here! The online workshop about calibration for alternative processes is finally finished 
You can download the 291 page book, videos, programs, and files on The Wet Print website, or directly through this link.
The complete workshop includes-
PDF Guides
The fours guide that make up the book are: Getting the Right Density, Linearization, Tonal Separations, and Printing in Color.
Videos
Apart from the four guides, there are several videos that cover the digital parts of the process. The videos are titled, Calculating Exposure Times, Linearization, Making a Proofing Station, Split Tones, Making an ICC Profile, and Preparing an Image to Print. The information from these videos is also written out as step by step instructions throughout the series.
Excel Programs
Calibrating a print, especially in color, requires a number of calculations. There are three Excel documents that come with this series, to automate that process. All you need to do is copy and paste values and Excel will do the rest. The documents are: Exposure Times, SCTV Linearization, and Solver.
Documents
This workshop comes with a few documents: test charts, profiles in CMYK, CMYK+1 and CMYK+3, a registration mark, many separation curves, and sample data.
You can apply the information from the workshop to make simple black and white prints with one negative, all the way up to making extended gamut prints with spot colors, multiple tonal separations per color, optimization profiles, ink limiting curves, general correction curves, and get the prints to look correct on the first try. No more trial and error, and wasted time.
The workshop goes way beyond just basic calibration. Most importantly, there’s a section at the beginning of the second guide that goes through the different types of negatives for making prints. In that section you will learn how to get a perfect paper white every single time, have 1%, 2%, 3% gray spot on, and create a linearization curve that isn’t affected by changes in contrast of the process. When I teach that section in my workshops, people’s jaws always drop. It’s really like cheating.
The workshop doesn't cover printing the actual negative. I think there are already enough books on that subject. It covers everything up until the point you go to make the negatives, and the theory behind the hundred or so choices you need to make along the way.
Thanks for your support! Hopefully I can make more publications like this in the future.
You can read the complete introduction for free through this link.
Onwards and Upwards,
Calvin Grier
You can download the 291 page book, videos, programs, and files on The Wet Print website, or directly through this link.The complete workshop includes-
PDF Guides
The fours guide that make up the book are: Getting the Right Density, Linearization, Tonal Separations, and Printing in Color.
Videos
Apart from the four guides, there are several videos that cover the digital parts of the process. The videos are titled, Calculating Exposure Times, Linearization, Making a Proofing Station, Split Tones, Making an ICC Profile, and Preparing an Image to Print. The information from these videos is also written out as step by step instructions throughout the series.
Excel Programs
Calibrating a print, especially in color, requires a number of calculations. There are three Excel documents that come with this series, to automate that process. All you need to do is copy and paste values and Excel will do the rest. The documents are: Exposure Times, SCTV Linearization, and Solver.
Documents
This workshop comes with a few documents: test charts, profiles in CMYK, CMYK+1 and CMYK+3, a registration mark, many separation curves, and sample data.
You can apply the information from the workshop to make simple black and white prints with one negative, all the way up to making extended gamut prints with spot colors, multiple tonal separations per color, optimization profiles, ink limiting curves, general correction curves, and get the prints to look correct on the first try. No more trial and error, and wasted time.
The workshop goes way beyond just basic calibration. Most importantly, there’s a section at the beginning of the second guide that goes through the different types of negatives for making prints. In that section you will learn how to get a perfect paper white every single time, have 1%, 2%, 3% gray spot on, and create a linearization curve that isn’t affected by changes in contrast of the process. When I teach that section in my workshops, people’s jaws always drop. It’s really like cheating.
The workshop doesn't cover printing the actual negative. I think there are already enough books on that subject. It covers everything up until the point you go to make the negatives, and the theory behind the hundred or so choices you need to make along the way.
Thanks for your support! Hopefully I can make more publications like this in the future.
You can read the complete introduction for free through this link.
Onwards and Upwards,
Calvin Grier
