Re: Help Choosing a Color Management System
Re: Help Choosing a Color Management System
- Subject: Re: Help Choosing a Color Management System
- From: Bruce Bumbarger <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:48:18 -0500 (EST)
Andrew:
I'm in the early stages here, and am delighted to see this question being
discussed. Using Silverfast 5.5 with an old Epson 636 Expression, scanner
profile created using Monaco EZColor 2, monitor calibrated and profiled
using Photocal and Spyder, Photoshop 6. No high-bit option.
It was my understanding that once I've created a scanner profile using
default settings in Silverfast, any scans I make have to use the same
settings in order for the profile to work. I took this to mean that I
couldn't make tonal corrections, color cast compensation moves, use any of
the automatic correction features, &c. I'd just make a straight scan and
work on the 8-bit file brought in to Photoshop. Without the capability of
making high-bit scans (ancient equipment) having the choice of making some
corrections pre-scan is pretty handy. Can I do this and still depend on the
profile created by Monaco?
Maybe if it's not a major pain you could explain a bit about what is
happening with the profile and what parts of the operation have to remain
set as they were during the calibration and profiling operation. Thanks.
Bruce
>
Is it better to keep a fixed parameter set at the scanning software and do
>
all the corrections in Photoshop?
First it depends on the scanner driver. ICC savvy applications like
LInoColor, Imacon's FlexColor, SilverFast, allow you to load a scanner
profile, Working or Output profile and do all the work you want in the
driver. That doesn't invalidate the profiles (you don't have to lock the
scanner down).
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