Re: Profiling: PhotoDisc versus Other Images

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In a message dated 4/5/02 5:02:27 PM, heliar@attbi.com writes:

>However, I find that when I print out any of my own 
>images, they are way off: in other words, I don't get a 
>printout that resembles my screen image.
>
>Any idea why it would work nicely for the PhotoDisc 
>target, but not regular images ?

I might word that differently: why it would work nicely for the PhotoDisc 
target, but not on *irregular* images... The PDI image is a professionally 
shot, professionally corrected image that had been carefully brought into a 
reasonable sized gamut, and tagged AdobeRGB to convert well without clipping 
to most devices. You images may not fit into the same category. One quick 
trick to test this is to be sure that your image is in AdobeRGB, then 
decrease the saturation significantly, so that the image is rather flat, then 
print that version, and compare to the image on screen. If you have a 
hardware calibrated monitor, and a proofing light, the screen and the print 
should now match (though they will both be unsaturated). If so, then your 
issues are with one of the following elements:

Untagged files, or other workingspaces than AdobeRGB,
Lack of a proofing light,
Or most likely: out of gamut color in your files that you are expecting the 
profile to bring into gamut for you, instead of controling them yourself in 
advance.

C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
CDTobie@designcoop.com
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