Color Management w/ Oly 8080 Photoshop 7 ?

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Dan_Mullis
Jul 2, 2004
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The Olympus 8080 uses the sRGB colorspace as do most of the current 8 Mpx digicams. I don’t print my pics at home as I use a minilab for printing and I have callibrated my CRT monitor using Gamma. So…what should my color management be set to in Photoshop 7 ? Should I view all of my pics @ 6400K as well? Thank you for your help!

Dan.
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Tim_Lookingbill
Jul 2, 2004
If the minilab doesn’t read profiles, you should run a test print (asking the operator not to edit or optimize) to see if the images match to your calibrated monitor. If they don’t, you’ll need a profile of the printer and convert to that profile from your sRGB tagged file or spend some time editing to make the image match which defeats the purpose of CM, anyway.

I use a Fuji Frontier 340 minilab at my Walgreens using the free profiles downloaded at DryCreek Photo.com. They have thousands of profiles for different minilabs located across the world. I just downloaded several of the same model/paper and assigned the one that made the image look like the test print, but canceled out retaining the original profile.

Then I just converted to the Fuji profile using relative colorimetric/black point compensation and sent it to the minilab asking the operator not to optimize or edit.

I get more accurate results this way. To get even closer results it really helps to view your prints with same white light of your monitor or close as possible.

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