Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Calibration will help because it will set set your monitor to a known standard color rendition If it's grey on your (calibrated) monitor, it will be gray on any other calibrated monitor (like mine). Currently it's grey on your monitor but a weird green on mine (and therefore it's green when viewed in an industry-standard color space... which is roughly what most people's monitors, even uncalibrated ones, should be set to). You can be confident that anyone viewing your pictures on a calibrated monitor will see what you are seeing and you give those with uncalibrated monitors your best shot. What you have done is called a 'closed-loop' calibration where you match one piece of equipment to another rather than matching them both to a known standard. This is fine if you never want to share your pictures but if you do then you get exactly the problem which you saw here. I used Pantone OptiCal and the Spyder, which is great for both LCDs and CRTs To convert to sRGB in Photoshop 6, assuming that it's not already your working space (which it shouldn't be!) you select image > mode > convert to profile... then choose sRGB. When you save as a JPEG, check 'embed color profile' in the 'save' dialog (it's at the bottom). You should not save the original image with the sRGB profile, but revert to whatever your regular working space is. On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 01:42 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > John, > > How is calibration in itself going to help here? In fact, my monitor is > calibrated in the sense that I am able to print and more or less match > what > I see on the screen (which does not have a green cast). How do I > convert the > profile into sRGB, and how do I embed the profile in the JPEG (I use > PS 6)? - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com http://www.unintended-consequences.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html