This is an interesting thread for me, and an interesting reply from Tom. I have been mulling whether to ask something about colour correction, but I can't readily formulate a question at the moment.
As you know, I am going to buy a new printer soon, and intend to use a fully colour-managed workflow. Now, like many men I am red/green colourblind - to the extent that I get all the flash cards wrong in colour-blindness tests, so I don't trust the evidence of my own eyes when colour is involved. Therefore for a colour-managed workflow I will need to work by numbers. I have dug out and re-read "Color correction by numbers" by Dan Margulis. http://www.ledet.com/margulis/PP7_Ch02_ByTheNumbers.pdf It's a very interesting process - you don't even need a calibrated monitor, or a colour monitor even. Just by picking the brightest white where you want to hold detail, and the darkest black ditto, then setting them to some combination of CMYK (in the article, but later he shows it with RGB apparently - I don't have the book yet) you should be able to make everything else fall into its rightful place, colourifically. This relies on some assumptions, of course, but you should be able to select an area that ought to be white, or black, look at the relationships between the numbers as against the 'correct' numbers for the white you want, and determine from that what type of cast there is over the whole picture. No doubt there are drawbacks to this technique, but it seems like a reasonably good way of getting an objective answer to your question, and a more balanced approach than applying a quick fix filter. -- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tom C > Sent: 06 July 2006 17:32 > To: pdml@pdml.net > Subject: RE: Color Cast Question > > Yep... too cool, IMO. Might try one of Photoshop's warming > filters as a > quick fix. > > > > >From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Does this pic have a bluish cast to it? > > > >http://home.earthlink.net/~morepix/sunrabrunch.html > > > > > >Shel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
