Digital Lith effect

[cedoriko]

Hello there,
i have been searching for ways to imitate digitally the lith effect and haven't found much. The pros that know about it are publishing books that actually don't say much...
http://www.pauck.de/marco/photo/lith/digital_lith/digital_lith.html is so far the best digital manipulation i have found but i would like to find something else/better...
I've bought an Iridius photoshop action but the result is not hot at all...
Anybody got something???
Thanks for reading at least.

 

[Bob Carnie]

This method seems okay and does mimic the lith effect.
One of the beautiful factors of lith is the actual paper it is printed on and its silver content.
Clients of mine spend many days in the darkroom with me to create imagery and then scan the prints we do and use inkjets for their portfolio and handout.

The comment about speed in this article is a bit off base.
When printing lith in a wet darkroom we can change pull times, change main exposure change flash,tissue effects, softfocus effects, pull focus effects , change paper types all within minutes of each other and walk out of the printing session with many , many looks on any paticular image.
Toning adds a endless supply of different looks on top of all the above changes.
* I keep on thinking about Walt Disnesys animation and his story about Paul Bunyon. I don't know if anyone else here remembers the movie, but as a child I remember crying when Paul lost the tree cutting race to the guy with the automated chainsaw*
Well for Pauls sake >I am here to say I challange any one with a computer and inkjet machine to try to make more interesting looks on a set of negatives. *Time Line will be four hours*, I will work in a wet darkroom and the challanger will work in PS with inkjet.
We will make lith prints and post the resulting images.
I know I am being silly , but this is one area where I know that printing under and enlarger is much more creative and time sensible.

 

[ann]

In Tim Rudman's book "the World of Lith Printing" there is a chapter on various ways to make lith simulations. One is with a piece of software from (a plug in)Fotospeed and another is using a gradient map with PS, or using PS duotone and tritone functions.

I have not tried any of the above , but the examples in the book look very interesting.

 

[cedoriko]

Thank you guys.
I'll practice a bit more my PS abilities before doing a lith printing duel...

 

[Bob Carnie]

We will only do the duel , if Disney makes the movie of our heroic efforts.

Thank you guys.
I'll practice a bit more my PS abilities before doing a lith printing duel...