[Leica] Colour Management ?????

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Read Color Confidence by Tim Grey. It won't give you specific answers
but it will give you what you need to know to understand how it all
works together.

Lea

----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas M. Sharp" <DouglasMSharp@netscape.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>; "MUG"
<MUGers@yahoogroups.com>; "Rollei" <rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 7:37 AM
Subject: [Leica] Colour Management ?????


>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Help!! This is probably a question that would be of interest to anyone
> starting scanning, posting and printing.
> It also serves as a criticism of the manufacturers of  scanners and
> printers, they all seem to assume that we are already experts
> when we buy their products. The "Just load the software, plug it in,
and
> then of course you know what you are doing, or you wouldn't
> have bought it" mentality of Handbook authors.
>
> The more I read about it the more confused I get.
> What should  the colour management parameters for the following
> conglomeration of equipment be ?
> 1) Monitor (at present TFT, a CRT is on the shopping list)
> 2) Nikon V ED 35mm scanner
> 3) Canon 9900F Flatbed
> 4) HP Photosmart Printer
>
> My intention is , rather obviously, to get prints, and images for the
> web, with identical colours, contrast and brightness as the slides I'm
> scanning.
>
> There are so many options for each piece of equipment and the
> corresponding software that it's so easy to get totally lost.
> Are Nikon or Canon profiles compatible/identical  with Adobe PS
Elements
> 2.0 or Arcsoft Photostudio 5 ? is  sRGB some kind of  general setting
> that
> serves all other RGB profiles ?
> Am I confusing  Color Spaces and Color Profiles ?
>
> TIA for your help
> Douglas
>
>
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