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Still on the quest
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21-JAN-2005

21 January 2005
Still on the quest

I'm still investigating colour management as I mentioned (!) to you yesterday. I don't give up easily - an old boss of mine once said to me "..there's no such thing as can't, Gail. You mean you won't.." That's kind of stuck with me because he's right - there's almost always a way, it's just a case of finding it. Mind you I haven't found a way to get back the photo for today that I accidently deleted from my camera!! Oh well.... back to the colour management.

Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel
1/3s f/5.0 at 41.0mm iso200 hide exif
Full EXIF Info
Date/Time21-Jan-2005 21:09:50
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS DIGITAL REBEL
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length41 mm
Exposure Time1/3 sec
Aperturef/5
ISO Equivalent200
Exposure Bias-0.33
White Balance (-1)
Metering Modematrix (5)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Program
Focus Distance

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Guest 23-Jan-2005 18:20
Cool!! First lesson...To find the colors!!

Ian Clowes22-Jan-2005 22:18
Like the shot - but don't have your patience!
Guest 22-Jan-2005 07:29
Nice bit of colour you have there hehe. Glad youre not giving up!
Jim B22-Jan-2005 02:34
I am glad you did not delete this one, Gail. I really like it. Good luck with your quest.
Antonis Sarantos21-Jan-2005 23:37
O.K. lets see what you learned today, i'll wait till tomorrow for an example!
Guest 21-Jan-2005 22:26
You've got way more patience than me, or am I just lazy? :)
Guest 21-Jan-2005 22:16
I resisted yesterday but here goes... The only way to get a properly colour managed workflow is to invest in three (minimum) items. 1) A monitor calibration tool. 2) A correctly printed reference picture with accompanying JPEG or TIFF file so that you can confirm the tool in 1) has worked. 3) A printer profiler that will ensure the printer makes something that looks like 2) and your correctly calibrated monitor.

This assumes of course that Photobox are correctly colour managed too... There is no halfway house really, if you have a home setup that works for you, remember the settings. Trying to compromise on the three things above leads to confusion and frustration!! It's a minefield.
John Lester21-Jan-2005 21:26
Epson has a very good on line course in digital work including printing, management and a lot of work in Photoshop. You get a lesson a day for 12 weeks and you can call them up and review them when you want from your own computer. PC only

You can get more info at: http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/PrintAcademy/pao_home.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes

John
Linda Alstead21-Jan-2005 20:43
hee hee your boss sounds like DM and my Dad - they just goad you into getting there!!!

as for the lost pic - you can get a recovery programme that David bought online that recovers deleted files from disks - he successfully recovered something he'd deleted about three months earlier. I'll find out what it's called and pmail you.