Hi Neil, From: Neil Barstow >Anyway, he informed me that I should ALWAYS be calibrating monitor to >D50, as per our viewing booths etc. D50 as well. It would be interestig to know who said that. Today I spoke to Hanspeter Harpf at color-solutions [basICColor makers] and he tells me he does not tell a client what it must be, but always asks for an opinion, testing both.
I'm confused a bit now....he definately said ALWAYS D50...he was demostrating new basICColour at Eizo stand on Thursday. Anyway, no problem..we shall stick with D65 I suppose. I think you were right you should trust your eyes IMO. test it out. Remember that luminance is very important too. Ok, on this point he said that we should try and attain a luminance of about 30% less than the max. luminance of a screen. Is THIS correct? If so, does this mean setting the 'brightness' off said screen at 70? or is it more complicated than this...(I'm sure it is!) Has anyone actually come up with any standard guidlines on luminance settings? Can we choose this setting using basICC? With basICColor Display and their special grey card [NOT with incident eyeone head] you can actually read the lightbox and set the screen to exactly the same spectrally measured white. Yes - I was shown this at Photokina.....We may need an extra long USB cable to reach into the viewing area in the office! [Of course you cannot expect to truly match screen and proof in the same field of view - your brain can't deal with it]. My brain can't deal with loads of things...so totally understand... . We are also about to shift over to GMG >COLOUR PROOF software next week, proofing files to ISO COATED and/ or >DP10 standards. gmg, eh? I got trained on that a few months back by gmg. nice kit, shame about it not running on Mac. Yes, Should be in next week...Running off Dual Xeon PC (arggh..PC), anyway. we are really looking forward to seeing this 4-d colour transformation in action. The non-ICC conversion may be a whole topic of discussion in itself...but as a quicky.... I was initially very concerned that the separations made in GMG might prove problematic when opened back up in Photoshop. On opening the file (with no ICC embedded profile), how does anyone actually VIEW this beautiful seperation? Obviously PS needs to assign (USE) a profile (even when you do not assign) to show the info on screen. Will this be inaccurate to view? According to (pretty grumpy) staff at GMG stand last week; If we proof to ISO Coated in GMG and then assign ISOCoated.icc in PS afterwards all will be fine and well. I wonder if you can clarify this? How does a non-ICC application, link back into an icc app, or is it that only the CONVERSION is non-icc, meaning that afterwards we are fine to go back to icc? a reflected D50 just does not match a monitor D50 to my eyes, nor to those of ANYONE I've ever done the test with. I will stick with D65 then.... Best Regards Neil Barstow Many Thanks as always, Graeme =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
