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 ... . > > > > - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.