Re: new to this list
Re: new to this list
- Subject: Re: new to this list
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:54:46 EST
In a message dated 12/4/00 3:33:31 PM, email@hidden writes:
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hi there. i am new to this list and am hoping to get a better understanding
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of colorsync. i work in the digital department of a stock phoptography
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agency and i do a lot of scanning, as well as a lot of color correction
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on images that are submitted to us digitally.I'm using a G4 to view and
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deal with all the images, and a Nikon LS2000 scanner hooked up to an older
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mac clone for the scanning. The scans get immediately saved to the server
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and then i view and edit them on the G4. Here is my question....and i
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know it is the question we are all dying for a real answer to: how do
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i know what i am looking at is right. I have a feeling that i am pretty
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close, but without a specific method of testing, how do i know?
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i am also having some problems (well, i don't know if it a problem b/c
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there is know way to really know what's right) as far as my photoshop
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settings. I have gone back to using the default monitor profile in
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ColorSync's
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native calibration control panel. My Photoshop 5.5 RGB setting is adobe
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rgb (1998). According to adobe, i should have "compensate for monitor"
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checked. Whe i was using a custom monitor profile, checking this box
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made my images look yellow. thans why i changed back to the default profile.
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If a nyone can offer some advice about how to handle monitor
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calibration/photo
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shop color settings i wouls be greatful
Well, I can offer free advice, but the fix is't free. If you are doing
serious color correction (even serious amateur color correction, but
*especially* if you are doing it professionally!) you need to have a hardware
calibrated monitor. Fortunately doing so just got a whole lot less expensive.
Go to ColorVision's website (www.colorcal.com) and check out the new Monitor
Spyder, with PhotoCal. This should allow you to get top notch monitor
calibration for under $200US.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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