The image above has been created as part of a portfolio catalogue placed together for the personal use of the subject above. Hannah, as previously shown in other pictures published, is extremely helpful when it comes to taking images and practicing the techniques I need to allow me to not only experiment with different lighting methods and scenery, but also to try different settings and equipment. Submitting this publication for the blog has itself been an excellent example of how after all this time I have managed to distinguish between the different colour profiles, the different .icc profiles that are custom to my Epson 4800 Pro.
I have for some time been trying to have my monitors, printers and web space all agree on the same profiles, this is one of those subject matters that has baffled and bewildered photographers and designers for ages.
Calibration is the first step, that is calibration of the monitor. I have been doing this for a few years now and the profiles created do vary from time to time. The Spyder 2 Pro is the hardware I use and there are many tutorials out there that give you the step by step instructions you need to achieve this. The printer I use is an Epson 4800 Pro, the ultrachrome ink is astonishing and the image reproduction is excellent. The problems have always been between what you see on the monitor and what you see on the final print. I do not convert my images to CMYK and send them to pre-press for production, although this is something that I will progress some time in the future.
One of the problems caused for many is the image reproduction on screen, i.e. working in Adobe Photogshop CS3 and then saving it for web to upload. As most know, the image needs to be alot smaller than the psd file we work on locally. The image reproduction on screen is excellent and the colours produced make the image punch, however the colour variations associated with sRGB, make the difference to the image, once uploaded.
After many a trial and error and working out the difference in the profiles, my final workflow seems to have nailed this problem. This workflow seems easy to me now and with it, makes the reproduction of the true colours an accurate reflection of what I actually want and not something that the operating systems just throws at you. This week I will include this workflow for you and see if you agree with it, or you may be able to add to it. However, the image above has been created using this worflow and although alot of viewers, depending on your monitor calibration; may not see any difference, it is there. I will post the update to this article later in the week.
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