Re: Photoshop 5.5

[David Spellman <david@photopro.com>]

John Adelsbach wrote:

> I just purchased Photoshop 5.5 under the belief that
> its color calibration would be much improved. As
> everyone has written, this is the most problematic
> area in all of digital photography. Does anyone have
> an opinion or solution to getting my Epson prints to
> look anywhere close to my display color space (without
> the need for five or so 'test' prints)?

    Photoshop 5.5's color calibration hasn't been significantly changed, that I
can tell, from P5. Why did you believe that it was "much improved?"  What part
of it makes it "the most problematic area in all of digital photography?"
Photoshop 5.5's notable changes have to do with masking and web images, near as
I can tell.

    You might want to take a gander at a book called "Essentials of Digital
Photography; Your Guide to Digital Photography and Imaging with Photoshop" by
Akira Kasai, Russell Sparkman (New Riders, ISBN 1-56205-762-6). If you can't
afford the rather expensive software and hardware to calibrate both monitor and
print using ICC profiles, you'll find that the techniques for calibrating your
monitor and optimizing your print results using the hardware and software you
already have are about the best available.

    The other two books that form the core of any Photoshop library, Real World
Photoshop and Professional Photoshop 5, have already been discussed here.

    What are you changing between test prints now to get the results you
wanted?

    david

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