Thanks for the referral--I'll check those out. All I want is a decent desk light for spot checking prints. Although I've sold a couple photos at an art show before, I don't think that will be a common occurrence!
FWIW the 5000K LED bulb I bought was a Philips 9W 5000K A19...
Out of curiosity, given a specific light/paper combination, is it possible to "flavor" a custom print profile for a specific lighting condition? In other words, how would I tune my print profile to the light emitted by the LED? Ideally, I'd want to dial up the amber/tan in my printer profile so...
OK, having been blessed with some sun and natural light today I think I can safely say that my screen and print match...apparently the 5000K LED is pretty good for most tones but adds some amber/tan to the flesh tones. My $6 bulb is no substitute for a good light...but maybe it's good enough...
Argh...You are correct. I exported the original image as TIF in the ProPhoto space, but then I converted to JPG and forgot to convert to sRGB. Doh!
The "proof" image was created from the orginal TIF/ProPhoto, which I then passed through tifficc to produce a soft proof. I also converted this to...
Thank you for doing this...it is great to see that all the tones within the image fit within your display profile. I suspected this, and have done a gamut check on the image, but your plot shows this conclusively. Thanks again!
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Wow--thank you sincerely for all the replies and suggestions. I appreciate all your feedback and help.
For clarity, here is a summary of what I have done:
I'm printing on a Pro-100 with Precision Color replacement inks. Print head has been cleaned and aligned recently.
I am printing on Epson...
Thank you for your reply Emulator--much appreciated. I have read many of your posts ;)
I went back to the man pages for tifficc and now realize that the command I executed on the proof.jpg image used the Absolute rendering intent, which produced a yellow cast in the output. I re-ran tifficc...
Hello--new forum member here...go easy on me please :)
I recently profiled my display and printer using Argyll. In the past I used other tools and am familiar with color management.
To profile my printer I followed a tutorial located here...