Someone write a profiles tutroial

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Seems we have some very clever people on TPF who have the ability to convey knowledge without the need to show how much supperior their intellect is. Someone needs to write a laymans tutorial covering colour profiles from setting up your cameras colour space, monitor calibration and how to use it's created profiles, through to photoshop setup (not just CS2, we're not all loaded or dodgy:nono: ;) ) and finally printing profiles (when to use them, when not to and the different requirements for home printing and using peeps like photobox.

What are you waiting for? Crack on.

Kev
 
someone at camera club asked me just that question last night and I felt like a jibbering idiot...i could see he blanked over as soon as I started to talk...good job he did cos I know I didn't make sense! I sort of understand it, but it all has to do with if you can get a print which looks the same as you see it on screen?? Barry and I have calibrated, profiled and printed til I am sick of the whole complicated issue!! So yes, I agree, will and generous person please write a tute or summink which makes sense? ;)

Photobox have a picture which you can print out and match to what you see on screen...even all that did me in! :gag:
 
LOL. It would be a brave person who would attempt to write it. ;)

I'll just quote Ken Rockwell on the subject....

Adobe RGB gives dull colors when used by anyone other than an expert in color management who prints his own work. Even if you're an expert, if you send your work out for printing, 90% of the time the people doing the printing aren't experts and screw it up for you. Ignore desktop armchair hobbyists who bleat on about the broader color gamut of Adobe RGB. I've created and printed 100% chroma grads in Adobe RGB and sRGB and saw no difference when printed either on Inkjets or on the $250,000 Lightjet 5000 on Fuji Supergloss. Oh well! Using Adobe RGB is asking for trouble unless you really know what you're doing and have complete control over your process. If you have to ask, don't use Adobe RGB."

:D
 
And I'll just reply to that quote...

Oh balls...:(
 
And thats what I also read, hence my decision to shoot in Adobe.

I suppose with the wider gamut it'd be safer to shoot in sRGB then convert to Adobe later, thus filling the extra gamut space with emptiness (so to speak)
 
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