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I've had these kicking around on my drive since last year...I'm going to start using them again. They're better at saving OHP material.
I'm sure some of you may find these step wedges useful. (summoning his best movie trailer voice...) In the world of bits and bytes 21 and 31 step wedges don't always fit the need. Along came a man with a new idea and it changed everything -- binary step wedges. OK enough melodrama.
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The advantage is obvious. If you're working in binary and RGB numbers and want to match tones these make more sense. They are also long and skinny wedges which take up less room when printing than square wedges so you save on OHP material.
To use:
1. Print your uncurved blocking colour to either of these wedges to "hone" your whitepoint. You will then be able to sample the block in your photo editor that caused white and this will become your new blocking colour.
or
2. Print your uncurved blocking colour and create your curves from these wedges. Maybe I need to do a 128 + 1 wedge too? A 255 + 1?
Once printed I use a cheap $20 paper cutter (or use a straight-edge and Xacto knife) to slice it off the top of OHP material so you still have almost a whole sheet. You won't have to worry about shifting your image around in the print preview function trying to avoid overprinting your last job.
These are available for download in tiff form also. In LZW compression with layers as part of the file if you want to relabel them. Just leave my RNP Array tag on please.
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I'm sure some of you may find these step wedges useful. (summoning his best movie trailer voice...) In the world of bits and bytes 21 and 31 step wedges don't always fit the need. Along came a man with a new idea and it changed everything -- binary step wedges. OK enough melodrama.
View attachment 111
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The advantage is obvious. If you're working in binary and RGB numbers and want to match tones these make more sense. They are also long and skinny wedges which take up less room when printing than square wedges so you save on OHP material.
To use:
1. Print your uncurved blocking colour to either of these wedges to "hone" your whitepoint. You will then be able to sample the block in your photo editor that caused white and this will become your new blocking colour.
or
2. Print your uncurved blocking colour and create your curves from these wedges. Maybe I need to do a 128 + 1 wedge too? A 255 + 1?
Once printed I use a cheap $20 paper cutter (or use a straight-edge and Xacto knife) to slice it off the top of OHP material so you still have almost a whole sheet. You won't have to worry about shifting your image around in the print preview function trying to avoid overprinting your last job.
These are available for download in tiff form also. In LZW compression with layers as part of the file if you want to relabel them. Just leave my RNP Array tag on please.
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