Re: Printer compensation question

["Rafe B." <rafeb@channel1.com>]

At 07:26 PM 6/24/99 -0700, Barbara wrote:
>
>
>David M Fanger wrote:
>
>> I suspect I'm about to utter a heresy for the addled and grizzled on this
>> list, but I work in Picture Publisher 7.0, have calibrated my monitor to
>> the best of my amateurish abilities, and make my Stylus Color 900 match the
>> monitor (or at least come close) by generating "Style" color correction
>> files for each paper I use. (I'm sure Photo Shop has comparable filters
that
>> one can wedge between the data displayed on the screen and the data
received
>> by the printer.)I apologize for the unorthodox terminology of this post. I
>> don't talk
>> PhotoShop.
>
>I wish you did, because I'm not sure there's anything like that in
Photoshop. If
>I'm wrong, could someone on this list fill me in, because this sounds like a
>great idea! Thanks.
>
>Barbara
>


This is certainly not a technique that C.D. Tobie would
approve of, but...

If the corrections (to R, G, B) are consistent, and
if you can make the corrections with, say, a single use
of the Levels Tool or Curves tool, then you could always
SAVE those settings and apply them at a later time, to
any image you choose.  That's why those dialogs have
"Save" and "Load" options, after all.  Presumably, 
somebody thought that corrections might be re-useable.

Using Actions you could get a whole lot more sophisticated
than that, of course.

In some respects, this is the "do it yourself by eyeball"
alternative to ICC profiles.  Kind of crude, but hey, the
price is right.

This is *not* a technique I use, by the way; I simply
brought it up as an option for Barbara.


rafe b.

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