Re: Agfa Fotolook 3.5 and custom profiles
Re: Agfa Fotolook 3.5 and custom profiles
- Subject: Re: Agfa Fotolook 3.5 and custom profiles
- From: Christopher Warr <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 22:15:45 -0500
in order to use Profiles created in anything except colortune you will need
aprofile editor to change some of the custom tags Agfa has chosen to
implement. Profile editor by brian griffin works just fine for me.
specifically you need to change the technology tag to reflect the type of
device. IE scanner/film or reflective
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Christopher Warr
Young Phillips Pro-Photo
6399 Amp Drive
Clemmons NC 27012
336-766-7070 xt.251
208-730-1673 fax
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http://www.youngphillips.com
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From: Dan Reid <email@hidden>
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:45:01 -0700
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To: James Robinson <email@hidden>
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Cc: colorsync <email@hidden>
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Subject: re: Agfa Fotolook 3.5 and custom profiles
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:15:07 -0500, James Robinson <email@hidden>
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> Does anyone out there know how to use a custom profile in Fotolook 3.5.
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> All I can access are the three that came with the software. Just got
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> off the phone with agfa tech support. They suggest it can be done but
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> won't say how. Said I should contact someone about it but would not say
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> who. Not any help really.
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> Thanks
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> P Guba
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> email@hidden
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I have run into the problem with Agfa Fotolook since v2.6 ! If I remember
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correctly you need to load the ColorTune software and place an alias of your
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profiles (which are in the Colorsync folder) in the respective *Color Tags*
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folder for Fotolook to recognize the profile. Now why they don't recognize
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the profiles in Colorsync folder is beyond me.
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P.S. I seem to remember that the reflective profile *was* recognized in
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the Colorsync folder but not the transmissive! I really hate all this stupid
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proprietary non-documented crap! What's worse is that Agfa tech support does
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not readily have a solution even though I have told them this problem months
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back with v2.x .