RE: Colour management and photographers - another perspective.
RE: Colour management and photographers - another perspective.
- Subject: RE: Colour management and photographers - another perspective.
- From: "Niemann, Andy RBCM:EX" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:31:08 -0700
- Thread-topic: Colour management and photographers - another perspective.
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Andy,
I'm curious as to the size of the targets you've been using, if you've
tried any of the larger Atkinson targets, and if that affected your
results. Also, have you compared the effect of using the Default vs.
Large profile size?
Rick Gordon
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Hi Rick
>From what I remember (I did this about a year ago):
I only used the targets that Gretag gives you with the Eye1 -a large one
with two pages of squares and a small one with fewer squares. I used the
large one, taking care to go slowly so it would have enough time to read
the colors accurately. Can't unfortunately remember if I used the
default or the large profile, or if those options were available then.
After working on it for about a day and a half I dropped it as the
canned profiles were giving me more consistent results and well, life
goes on and other stuff has deadlines.
I basically threw this experience in printer profiling in with the
abysmal experience I had had with the PrintFix product. The results from
that product were totally horrific and completely unusable so I figured
this was just more of the same even if it was quite a bit better. Just
more time wasted that had to be made up somewhere else.
Which brings me to the opinions expressed in another thread about an ad
agency that used old tried and true methods to get their prints out the
door with short time frames, rather than rejig their workflow to follow
proper color management protocols. I think products have to get
demonstrably more reliable and predictable and actually really do the
job they claim to do before new processes can take over. It's hard to
invest lots of time, pushing back deadlines thinking you will regain
that time with the newer and better workflow, only to have to spend
weekends away from your kids (or whatever the rest of life is for you)
in order to catch up again to where you were before.
Sorry, getting grumpy in my old age, Andy
.........
A.Niemann
Photo/Computer Arts
Royal BC Museum, Victoria, BC, Canada
(250) 387-2131
<mailto:email@hidden>
<http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/>
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