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Found a weird fix for muddy greens in my prints by accident
Ngl, I was messing around with a test print of a forest scene and the neon greens kept coming out like swamp water. I stumbled on a YouTube video from some random print shop in Ohio that said to bump the yellow to 30% more than cyan in the shadows. Anyone else try playing with ink ratios like that for specific colors?
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terry_mitchell6d ago
Actually, @simonreed has a decent point here. Bumping yellow that far in the shadows tends to push things toward brown, not help greens stay fresh. I've had better luck keeping the cyan black point low and just touching up the midtones with a bit more yellow instead.
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simonreed9d ago
Gotta disagree with you there. Messing with shadow yellow that heavy usually just shifts the whole color balance toward muddiness instead of fixing it. Have you tried dialing back the black point instead?
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