Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well Doug, we all know that your end results in print are superb. This sounds like a lot of work to get to that point. If you are using one lab that is printing digitally (and of course they almost all are) they could provide you with a profile for their setup. Assuming you had a calibrated monitor and colour management in place, you could install their profile to use for soft proofing. Then you should see on your calibrated screen what their output should look like (within the limitations of the different devices). For example I have a lab offering Fuji output from a prepared digital file which is extremely cheap. They have set up info available. They suggest conversion to sRGB (closest to the gamut of their machines) and they provide a profile. If you found that with this set up, there was a further adjustment, it ought to be consistent and you could routinely apply that correction. Really though, this methods should get you very close. Drop me a line if I'm not making sense. Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of telyt@earthlink.net Sent: Wednesday, 15 November 2006 09:49 To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: eyeball calibration (was: RE: PS Re: [Leica] DMR DNG profile hell !) G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > What were the problems for you, Doug and Brian, that > caused you to abandon the Spyders? After calibrating the monitor with the Spyder, prints from a known calibrated printer (the LightJet used by West Coast Imaging, which I believe was Calypso's LightJet) were much too dark and contrasty. My procedure now is to do a rough calibration using only Adobe Gamma, adjust the file in Photoshop the way I want it, then send the file to a lab with a calibrated printer. Once I get the print back I open the file in Photoshop, open Adobe Gamma at the same time, then adjust the monitor's calibration (with Adobe Gamma) to make the PS image of the file look like the print. Assuming the initial calibration isn't quite right, I can then tweak the photo the way I want it with Photoshop. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information