Capture Sharpening

Optimal image sharpening is best done in three stages— capture (do it during RAW conversion), creative (do it in Photoshop) and output (automate it). Capture sharpening benefits all images. It compensates for inherent deficiencies in optical and capture systems. All lenses and sensors have specific...

What It Takes To Be A Great Workshop Leader

What does it take to be a great workshop leader? The same things that it takes to be a great leader in any field. A great leader communicates passionately. Then they fan the flames of other people’s passions. The one thing you don’t want to...

New X-Rite ColorMunki Display and i1Display Pro

X-Rite’s new ColorMunki Display and i1Display Pro make major leaps forward in color managing displays. Technologically Advanced Hardware Both ColorMunki Display and i1Display Pro devices feature an advanced, high-end, optical system with custom-designed filters that provide a near perfect match to the color perception of...

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 –...

Photoshop Color Settings

Excellent Photoshop Color Settings can be set up in a few seconds. 1  Go to Photoshop’s Edit Menu select Color Settings. 2  Start with Settings of North American Prepress 2 and then change RGB to ProPhoto RGB. (Optionally change Gray to Gray Gamma 1.8.) 3 ...

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...

Editing Spaces Compared

Four standard device-neutral RGB editing spaces compared sRGB – red; Colormatch – green; Adobe RGB – blue; ProPhoto – full color   From small to large, standard RGB editing spaces include sRGB, Colormatch, Adobe RGB (1998), and ProPhoto. Only ProPhoto RGB can contain as much...

Using ICC Profiles

ICC profiles define a meaning for the numbers used to represent colors in digital images. Without an ICC profile digital files will produce unpredictable and inconsistent results. As a rule, always use ICC profiles. There are a few rules for using ICC profiles. Always assign...

7 Simple Steps To Good Color Management

Color management is rocket science. But you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to drive the rocket. Instead, be an astronaut. With a few simple steps you can achieve consistent, high-quality color with your images every time. These are the seven simple steps to...

Simultaneous Contrast

How red is red? That depends in part on its context. We see colors in relationship to other colors in our field of vision. The appearance of any one color is modified by the presence of other colors. (This is a perceptual effect, not a...