[Leica] Colour Management ?????

[locke at straylight.ca (Greg Locke)]

Generally,  set everything to Adobe RGB.

It's the printing/ publishing industry standard colour space.

sRGB is a smaller colour space (less data) but fine of online viewing only.

Making sure everything is in the same colour space is a start.

...but not the end of it. Printing is always a problem and often dependent
on the software you are using.

A personal digital headache for me was getting different prints, of the same
image, from different photo applications.

PhotoShop 7, NikonView 5, Quark Express 6, Nikon Capture 4 and a custom made
program were all giving me different results when printing from within those
programs.

Eventually I ended up going back to Photoshop 6, upgrading to NikonView 6 to
get everying to "look" somewhat consistant.

Bottom line is you have to tinker a bit with the setting of all you devices.
.and sometimes I found that you just have to select the best application to
print from.

All input devices (scanners, digicams, etc) can be set to Adobe RGB to
ensure the same colour space is coming into your computer ...then the trick
is to adjust the "output" devices ...monitor, printer, image setter, etc

Cheers,



Greg Locke
St. John's, Newfoundland
www.greglocke.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+locke=straylight.ca@leica-users.org 
> [mailto:lug-bounces+locke=straylight.ca@leica-users.org] On 
> Behalf Of lea
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 11:04 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Colour Management ?????
> 
> 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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