Re: verifying and tweaking profiles
Re: verifying and tweaking profiles
- Subject: Re: verifying and tweaking profiles
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:00:37 EST
In a message dated 2/13/03 1:12:11 PM, email@hidden writes:
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I have the "economy" solution, the CV profilerPro software and a colormouse.
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My general procedure is read the patches, make the profile, printout the
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PDI target and
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use doctorPro to do an edit or two.
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Typically the bright yellow in the target prints on the green side so I
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use selective color
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to take cyan out of the yellow.
Another thing to try (to avoid the complications that can arise with profile
edits) is to use the saturation intent, and see if that brings your saturated
yellows back where you want them...
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Then the PDI targets look good, in fact the consistency across papers
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and inksets is
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quite amazing.
Thats encouraging...
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Then something like this happens.
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I just did a series of botanical prints for a photographer and there are
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many greens in the
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images, the profile is forcing the yellower greens to yellow.
Yup. Sounds like your edit was broad enough to have side effects...
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Fortunately I still had the original unedited profile and that more or
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less worked, with another minor tweak.
That makes sense... and is not uncommon for this type of demanding work...
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Is my procedure adequate ?
Sounds quite logical... and you seem to be learning from it as you go along.
Should I be testing with more/different
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targets ?
If your goal is the One Perfect Profile, then yes; if its minimal time and
effort expended, then your current method, used as conservatively as
possible, is fine.
Is selective color not
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a good approach to an edit ?
Its probably the only approach for editing specific colors in the software
you are using. To edit all yellows you would have other options, but to grab
just some shades of saturated yellow, Selective color is the tool. But it can
grab other tones, and move them at the same time, as you have noticed.
Minimize the selection, and make multiple small corrections to progressively
smaller sections, to smooth the transition.
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Inquiring minds want to know.
Then perhaps there will be a bit of food for thought in the above.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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