[Leica] Green Shadows Example

[Christopher Crawford]

Tina,

I have used Ilford Gold Fibre Silk for years for both color and BW prints.
The Ilford Profile is the problem. It also renders saturated blues as
purple, most frustrating in landscapes with blue skies.

Here’s what I do for color printing with it:

1) In Lightroom or Photoshop, set your printing for “Printer Manages
Colors.” You won’t be using a profile, we’re going to let the Epson driver
handle color management.

2) In the Epson driver, set the media type to “Premium Semigloss.” Set
Color Settings to “Epson Color Controls.” In the Print Settings screen,
choose “Advanced Settings” and choose either sRGB or Adobe RGB. Choose the
one that corresponds to the colorspace the image you’re printing is in.

3) Prints will have much more accurate color but may look slightly too
dark. In the advanced settings, changing the Gamma from 2.2 to 1.8 will
lighten the image enough to overcome that, though some occasionally look
too light most will print perfectly this way.

I made a video tutorial you can watch on how to do this:

https://youtu.be/roWAfDfyCTA

I hope this fixes your color problem. If not, you’re going to have to
switch to another paper, or pay someone to do a custom profile for you.

-- 
Chris Crawford
Fine Art Photography
Fort Wayne, Indiana
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On 4/8/18, 8:59 PM, "LUG on behalf of Tina Manley via LUG"
<lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

>I can't explain it then because I used the exact same digital photo and
>profile and on the Ilford paper there are green shadows.  On the Canson
>there are no green shadows.  I'll take an iphone photo of the Canson one
>tomorrow and post it.  Jayanand said he had problems with color casts in
>the Ilford paper and used it only for B&W.
>
>I ordered Hahnemuhle which was quite a bit more expensive but I hope I
>won't waste as much as I have on the Ilford!
>
>Tina
>
>On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 8:40 PM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>wrote:
>
>> Paper cannot synthesize or create green ink.
>> Profiles can.
>>
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