Richard,
A good idea for t hose that print on their own printer. For those who send
work out, it could be a train wreck.
Bill Pearce
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From: "Richard Man" <richard.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] ( OM ) Adobe rgb or not to be?
> Come on, stop making it complicated :-)
>
> If you know color management, then use it. Keep things in aRGB, but not
> ProPhotoRGB please, that exceeds just about everything, except for the
> newfangled Epson ultra-large-premium-format printer. Most monitors can't
> display it so why work in a space that you can't see? Use color profile to
> print using Photoshop, LR, etc. This way you leverage the wider gamut of
> aRGB and leverage the Adobe and Microsoft's engineers' intelligence to
> properly convert the colors correctly.
>
> Obviously, it goes without saying that you must calibrate your monitor
> using
> something better than Adobe Gamma, and use some reasonable printer
> profiles.
> Otherwise, it's garbage in, garbage out.
>
> I have an Eizo monitor and profile all my paper on the Z3100. Works great.
> That's throwing money at the problerm because I don't want to lose hair.
>
> ***
> For the 95% of the people who just want a simple workflow that produces a
> good reasult most of the time, just stay with sRGB from start to finish.
> No
> headache, no hairpulling, no 3 volume books to read.
>
> And you can spend time shooting photos. How cool is that?
>
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