Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/14

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Subject: [Leica] We all do it
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Thu Dec 14 00:29:49 2006

Peter, there's a lesson there :-) If your monitor is profiled and 
calibrated, turn that colour management on, get your printer
profiled and you won't be guessing any more for print or web.

Cheers
Hoppy
Colour management evangelist

-----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
Peter Klein
Sent: Thursday, 14 December 2006 15:44
To: Steve Barbour
Cc: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: Re: [Leica] We all do it

Steve:  This is probably the PC/Mac gamma problem.  A PC like mine has a 
standard gamma of 2.2.  A Mac (like yours, I believe) has a standard gamma 
of 1.8.  So if I view a Mac file, it looks too dark, if you view a PC file, 
it looks too light.

I may be compounding the problem because I've avoided color management.  My 
monitor is calibrated, and the scanner, my digital camera, and the Noritsu 
machine at Costco are all set to sRGB.  I worked out a curve by eye that 
works reasonably well with my color printer, and my B&W stuff prints 
properly with MIS inks and either the "Easy" B&W or the Paul Roarke curves. 
But I don't have color management turned on in my image editor.

--Peter

At 08:16 AM 12/13/2006 -0700, Steve Barbour wrote:
>hi Peter... for some reason your lovely color pics which no doubt are
>very colorful and saturated, are generally washed out here...
>
>what profile do you post in  ?  Steve
>
>
>
>Begin forwarded message:
>
>>From: Peter Klein <pklein@2alpha.net>
>>Date: December 12, 2006 11:55:38 PM MST
>>To: lug@leica-users.org
>>Subject: [Leica] We all do it
>>Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>
>>While bopping about in the desert, I took this:
>>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/Nevada/11880011SelfPortrait- 
>>w.jpg.html
>>
>>And this:
>>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/Nevada/ 
>>11880032SelfPortRedTri-w.jpg.html
>>
>>And during the same trip, I see this at the "Ansel Adams' America"
>>exhibit in Las Vegas:
>>http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ansel_j8wk8ync, 
>>0,5781362.photo?coll=cl-art
>>
>>I'm sure his is better, but I'm not going to feel bad about doing
>>it, too.  Your pictorial responses encouraged.
>>
>>--Peter
>>
>>
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