Color Management Primer?

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denvogel
Jun 8, 2005
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Is there a decent color management primer available? I’ve been through the docs and help files for PE and my printer, as well as a third party digital photo book. They’re very basic, and don’t help much with making choices. My setup is pretty simple, but I’m not achieving the results I hoped for in matching what I see on screen with what the printer outputs. I can’t help but wonder if I have dualing-profiles somewhere, and don’t know if I’m going to get it resolved without going through it step-by-step.

SYSTEM INFO
PowerBook G4 12-inch 1.5GHz, 768MB RAM, 100GB Hard Drive Mac OS X (10.4.1)
Photoshop Elements v3
Epson R800 photo printer

CURRENT SETTINGS
Display System Pref I’m using "color LCD" profile, which is the default. (While it doesn’t make sense to me, I had read that on LCD it was best to use default provided by manufacturer rather than calibrate.)

Photoshop Elements General Prefs: Color Settings I’m using "Full Color Management"

Elements Print Preview dialog prefs:
* Source Space: Adobe RGB (1998)
* Print Space: SPR800 Prem Glossy BstPhoto.icc (this is from Epson and matches the paper I’m printing on)
* Intent: Relative Colorimetric For Elements print dialog prefs: * ColorSync: Color Conversion: Standard, Quartz Filter: None * Print Settings: Media Type: Premium Glossy Photo Paper, Color: Color, Mode: Advanced: Print Quality: Photo RPM finest detail, Gloss Optimizer: On (matches what I’m printing on)
* Color Management: ColorSync

I think that’s everything I’ve mucked with. FWIW-I’m printing out the Photodisc PDI Test Image. Thanks for any guidance.
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Tom Murray 1
Jun 8, 2005
These are for full Photoshop but they might be helpful.
<http://www.russellbrown.com/images/tips_movies/(1)Photoshop%20CS%20Printing.mov>

<http://www.gballard.net/nca.html>
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malcolm_denton
Jun 8, 2005
Have a look at the following Apple document :

< http://images.apple.com/pro/pdf/Color_Management_in_Mac_OS_X .pdf>
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denvogel
Jun 9, 2005
Thanks for the references. The gballard.net in particular was quite helpful. There were a couple of the options/prefs that don’t appear to be available to me in Elements or Mac OS 10.4.1
1. In Elements I don’t seem to have a way of setting "US Prepress Defaults" that he refers to in Section 2
2. In Colorsync control panel I don’t have "preferences" tab referred to in Section 4.

In general, it looks like I was doing the right things. The one exception I see right now was selecting "ColorSync" in my print Color Management preferences instead of "No Color Adjustment".
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Barbara_Brundage
Jun 9, 2005
Hi, Denvogel. I don’t have Tiger so I can’t say about 2., but 1. is PS only–not in Elements.

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