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Hello !
I have spent hours and hours trying to get a reasonable concordance between my screen and the prints I got from the lab. No way.
I am trying to match the screen colors with the prints made on a Frontier. I have talked to the technician in charge of the Frontier, and I know the profile of his machine. I also believe that I now understand how Photoshop manages colors.
I am using a EyeOne probe to calibrate and profile my screen, and this raises three questions :
1. When I chose a white point temperature of 6500 °K, the software asks me to adjust the three channels RGB, using the hardware controls. Yet, when I chose "natural white", no adjustment is required. Does that make sense ? Nowhere is it said what temperature is "natural white".
2. The software asks me only to adjust for white point temperature, and yet it is obvious from the print that colors have shifted significantly : why does not the software help me adjust the RGB channels as well ?
3. To adjust for white point temperature, I used the hardware controls, as suggested. Yet, I have a piece of software, PowerStrip, which came with my graphic card. I used it only when I purchased the screen, to adjust the colors to my liking, but I have not touched it since. If I use it to match the screen colors to my print, then I will change my screen profile, right ? Then all my calibration and profiling will be useless… Should I remove PowerStrip ? How should I use it ?
Thanks !
I have spent hours and hours trying to get a reasonable concordance between my screen and the prints I got from the lab. No way.
I am trying to match the screen colors with the prints made on a Frontier. I have talked to the technician in charge of the Frontier, and I know the profile of his machine. I also believe that I now understand how Photoshop manages colors.
I am using a EyeOne probe to calibrate and profile my screen, and this raises three questions :
1. When I chose a white point temperature of 6500 °K, the software asks me to adjust the three channels RGB, using the hardware controls. Yet, when I chose "natural white", no adjustment is required. Does that make sense ? Nowhere is it said what temperature is "natural white".
2. The software asks me only to adjust for white point temperature, and yet it is obvious from the print that colors have shifted significantly : why does not the software help me adjust the RGB channels as well ?
3. To adjust for white point temperature, I used the hardware controls, as suggested. Yet, I have a piece of software, PowerStrip, which came with my graphic card. I used it only when I purchased the screen, to adjust the colors to my liking, but I have not touched it since. If I use it to match the screen colors to my print, then I will change my screen profile, right ? Then all my calibration and profiling will be useless… Should I remove PowerStrip ? How should I use it ?
Thanks !
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