Where to Put ICC Profiles

ICC profiles need to be filed in the correct location on your computer for them to be available to applications. Where do you put them? It depends on the system and version you’re using. Mac OS X –    Library / ColorSync / Profiles – storing profiles...

Using Color Management For Color Adjustment – Synthetic Profiles

       Synthetic Profiles – Big Change Small Price How can you change the appearance of a digital image without changing the numbers that assign the colors in it? Change what those numbers mean, by changing image’s ICC profile. Using abstract or synthetic profiles, you...

Mastering Color Management

Download your free copy now!   Use color management to make better files and insure others see them in their best light.   How To Do It   7 Simple Steps to Good Color Management Take these simple steps to get consistent high-quality color. Step...

Photoshop’s Color Lookup Makes Complex Color Effects Easy

  Original Image The Color Lookup Pastel8Hues creates very strong color effects. Any Color Lookup adjustment layer can be modified with Blend Modes.  The Color Lookup Adjustment Originally designed for color grading film and video, Photoshop’s Color Lookup feature offers novel ways to adjust color...

Save 12% On NEC Spectraview Monitors

Get 12% off NEC monitors with this discount code JPCPHOTO. I use the NEC PA 272W-SV. 10-bit GB-R LED backlit AH-IPS LCD Internal 14-bit programmable 3D LUTs Wide Gamut – 99.3% of AdobeRGB High resolution Easy on the eye flicker rate Now with lower power...

Profile Your Printer

Prints made with default (left) and custom (right) profiles compared. Good printer profiles help make good prints. Better printer profiles help make better prints. So, logically, you’ll want to use the best printer profiles to help you make the best prints. How do high-quality printer...

Softproofing

As a rule, always softproof an image to determine a rendering intent and make printer/substrate specific adjustments to a image file before printing it. You can get Photoshop to display an image the way it will appear when it’s printed, before you print it, by...

Profile Your Monitor

If you want to display your images accurately and make sophisticated decisions about how they will or could look, calibrate your monitor with hardware. Monitor calibration is a must. It’s not optional. It is easy. You need a device to do it well. The visual...

What To Do With Photoshop’s Color Management Dialogs

Knowing what to do with the color management dialog boxes you encounter while you’re editing your digital images in Photoshop is the key to making sure that the rich, saturated, wide-gamut color you choose to master your files in stays wide-gamut and doesn’t change –...

Choose A Wide Gamut Editing Space

Today’s inksets can exceed the gamut of even the best monitors in yellows, oranges, and blues. Epson UltraChrome HDR ink on Epson Exhibition Fiber is plotted against sRGB, Adobe RGB (1998) and ProPhoto. The gamut of this image and the print made from it exceeds...