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ASMP Guidelines for consistant digital images

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John A. Stovall - 17 Mar 2006 14:46 GMT
This points out the need for calibration and a large color space.

Here are the first five but you should read the rest.

http://www.asmp.org/publications/updig/index.php

. Manage the color. ICC profile-based color management is the
standard.

2. Calibrate the monitor. Monitors should be calibrated and profiled
with a hardware device.

3. Choose a wide gamut. Use a wide-gamut RGB color space (show
footnote) for capturing and editing RGB master files. We recommend
Adobe RGB (1998) or ProPhoto RGB.

Professional digital cameras have selectable color spaces. Photographs
intended for print should be captured in a wide-gamut space, such as
Adobe RGB (1998). Photographs intended only for the web can be
captured in the narrower-gamut sRGB color space. It is possible, but
not strictly necessary, to create custom camera profiles. When such
profiles work, they can speed workflow and yield more accurate colors.
Adobe’s Camera Raw program allows for calibration of a digital camera,
creating in effect a custom profile.

It’s essential that a photographer choose the correct color profile
when capturing JPEGs or TIFFs, because the camera will process images
into these formats using the specified profile.

4. Capture the raw data. For best quality, digital cameras should be
set to record RAW files.

5. Embed the profiles. All digital files should have embedded profiles
(should be “tagged”), unless otherwise noted. Photoshop’s Color
Management should be set to “always preserve embedded profiles,” and
the “ask when opening” boxes should be checked to alert you to profile
mismatches and missing profiles. When profile mismatches occur, you
should elect to preserve the embedded profile.
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tomm42 - 17 Mar 2006 15:03 GMT
Thanks, a good reference.

Tom
John McWilliams - 17 Mar 2006 16:59 GMT
> Thanks, a good reference.

At the same time, it's perfectly possible to forgo all of that: Take
well exposed pictures with a quality camera, print them unaltered on a
good printer; don't mess with color balance on the monitor, either by
clalibrating your decent monitor or changing curves, levels by RGB, or
levels at all.

Oh, forgot, JPEGs are not the spawn of Satan.

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John A. Stovall - 17 Mar 2006 17:56 GMT
>> Thanks, a good reference.
>>
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>Oh, forgot, JPEGs are not the spawn of Satan.

Yes, you can forgo all that an not be able to have repeablity and work
with standard and print anywhere  but if that' all you need for your
crappy little snapshots, enjoy.  

PS.  JPES are not the spawn of Satan, not even he would product such
an abomination.  
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"Vietnam is what we had instead of happy childhoods."

                            Tim Page in
                            "Dispatches"
                            by Michael Herr
Bronek Kozicki - 17 Mar 2006 18:01 GMT
> At the same time, it's perfectly possible to forgo all of that: Take
> well exposed pictures with a quality camera, print them unaltered on a

you forgot about WB.

B.
tomm42 - 17 Mar 2006 18:58 GMT
> > Thanks, a good reference.
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> John McWilliams

No matter how it ends, there is a workflow to get you there and this is
just good workflow. Most of it is intuitive anyway. For ten years I
took in files customers wanted printed digitally , on film recorders
and wide format. I wish alot of them followed those simple directions.
BTW I love the RAW files from my D200, but I've used jpegs on almost
every other camera, I've used.

Tom
 
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