Re: Using a ColorMouse (and ProfilerPro) 729 times

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Cathy,
Have you heard of a person named Colin Walker, who had developed a very good
D60 linear converter and profile?  He can be reached at
colinwalker@ntlworld.com

Regards, Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cathy Brown" <catbrown@prodigy.net>
To: <epson-inkjet@leben.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 12:09 PM
Subject: RE: Using a ColorMouse (and ProfilerPro) 729 times


> Ah, the joys of profiling. I'm currently experiencing them trying to
> profile my lovely new Canon D60 using Pictographics InCamera. What I'm
> getting is far better than just assigning sRGB or Adobe RGB to the
> output, but are the black and white points set correctly so that the
> profile won't clip any images? Is it better to leave saturation low and
> correct in PS or vice versa (of course I'm trying to get it just right
> ... but that will never work for every image)? And so on.
>
> So I make profile after profile, all with slight variations and am
> caught in a profile loop that goes on and on and on.
>
> Even deciding on appropriate standard test images is an interesting
> exercise ... they all have to be from my D60 of course and I'm trying
> for a mix. Low key, high key, normal range of tones; under, over, and
> perfectly exposed; gray balanced before conversion from raw format and
> auto balanced; skies and skin tones. You get the idea.
>
> I've stopped for the moment (sigh of relief ... sanity returns) and am
> testing out my latest batch of profiles.
>
> But then yesterday, I found my latest linear profile was clipping the
> whites on an image where I wanted to use linear to retain otherwise
> blown out detail. So, I need two linear profiles (at least) one to
> retain extreme highlights, one for normal use.
>
> Back to profiling ... .
>
>
>
>


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