[scribus] solid black with LSI/PDFX/Scribus and full colour interiors

[john Culleton]

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.



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