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Comment on Alcatraz by albert

albert — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:34:56 +0000

Hi Don,
Thank you for the kind words. Always wonderful to hear from fellow photographers and I am thrilled you like the presets.

I love LR and I too am a convert, it has become my main tool when working with photos. I use it for managing my images, post processing and printing. I love how I can just open an image in Photoshop too so I feel I have my cake and get to eat it too

I am happy to hear that HDR interests you. Sadly there are many people who despise it. I find it a wonderful art form and a great thing to include into my photography.

Thanks again for visiting
Albert

Comment on Alcatraz by Don

Don — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:55:12 +0000

Dear Albert:

Thank you for sharing your LR presets. I am a new convert to LR and I found your presets to be a great help to me. (They are a quick lesson on how to create effects with Lr)

I also have become interested in HDR and found your pictures to be a great inspiration to me.

I have been retired now for a few years, and although I have taken photos for well over 50 years, they were mostly for business purposes. I have had to learn how to look at my subject matter in an entirely new way.

Keep up the good work.

Don

Comment on Pow Wow – Indigenous music, dance, food and art by Dusty Kleifgen

Dusty Kleifgen — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:46:34 +0000

I enjoy your stories really often because they are published in an understandable coherent. So I can study them although I come from Austria and get any problems to translate English articles.

Comment on Lightroom Presets by Cabrini-Green “Making of the Image Part 2.”

Cabrini-Green “Making of the Image Part 2.” — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:07:13 +0000

[...] use an on camera filter for this image but rather used a red filter preset that you can find HERE. Once the preset was applied, I decided to work on increasing the contrast through the tone curve. [...]

Comment on Using ICC profiles with Canon printers by peaches

peaches — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:35:10 +0000

Also, Albert, I want to step up my printing and I am considering the new Canon 9500 with the wide range of black and grey inks. I am just worried about the expensive ink.

Any printer advice? I may give up on the wide-format options to save money, but I do love being able to make 11×13 prints. I am tired of bad B&W prints though on these color printers.

Comment on Using ICC profiles with Canon printers by peaches

peaches — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:33:15 +0000

Thanks Albert. I would prefer to shoot in Adobe RGB, but it was when I tried to change my color management to Adobe RGB that I confused my equipment, so now somewhere I must be telling it conflicting advice. It’s not a paper issue. The prints don’t just have a blue tint, they are totally blue. If I use the Canon software Easy Photo Print, I get a regular, non-blue print. However this software a) does not allow custom sizes and b) does not allow PSE to manage color. I’ve checked all the typical troubleshooting items, cleaned the print head, changed ink, etc etc. I just have the wrong settings in color management.

I’ll keep trying. I wish there were a revert to default button somewhere!

I appreciate your help.

Comment on Using ICC profiles with Canon printers by albert

albert — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:22:15 +0000

Hi Peaches
I can sense your frustration, just by reading your post. Really sorry to hear of your troubles. Don’t know how much different my advice is from others,, but if you’re willing to try the following, it may help you out.

If Canon don’t offer profiles for the i9100, then try a paper manufacturer that does. One of them is Ilford. THey have superb paper and you can get it at places like Amazon or at a local camera store (but probably not at a place like Staples or Office Depot).
I personally like their Gallery Smooth range, especially the Pearl which has become my favorite paper.
See this link here http://www.ilford.com/en/products/galerie/smooth/desk/smoothMediaSheets.asp for their Gallery Smooth products.
On this page, on the left, you’ll see a “download ICC profiles” link. You will need to register, but the profiles are free and they DO have i9100 profiles.

When you have the paper and the matching profiles, follow the procedures I describe in this article, just think Ilford paper instead of Canon paper. I am sure, you’ll have better results.

As for sRGB vs Adobe RGB?
Well, Adobe RGB is a larger gamut. In other words, it captures more colors than sRGB. I like to have as much “playroom” as possible, so I shoot in Adobe RGB. After all, I can always go down to sRGB (less colors), but I cannot go “up”. Think of Adobe RGB as a 16oz cup of coffee and sRGB as a 12 oz cup. I can fill the 12 oz cup easily, but I can never fill the 16 oz cup if all I have is 12 oz to start off with.

The modern printers, such as the PIXMA Pro 9000 and 9500 have great color spectrum, larger than sRGB so it makes sense to capture in Adobe RGB so you are taking advantage of all the colors that these printers can print. I do not know about the i9100 and it is entirely possible that Adobe RGB is overkill for it. However, it won’t do any harm.
Just remember that most labs and the Internet use sRGB, so if you post images on the web or take them to a place like Costco to print, make sure you convert them to sRGB.

Hope this all makes sense.
Good luck, hope you get it sorted out. It is quite a thrill to see those beautiful prints come out of your printer.
Albert

Comment on Using ICC profiles with Canon printers by peaches

peaches — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:13:43 +0000

Canon support says that the printer is so old that they didn’t have ICC profiles. You just choose the paper type in the print dialog box. But I have changed so many settings now that I can’t make heads or tails of anything. everyone’s advice is different, and I don’t know enough about it to apply it to my situation. I am shooting in RGB but most people still say to use adobe RGB and let PSE manage color. RIght now something is askew because all my prints are blue.

This is maddening when you don’t know much about it.

Comment on Tonemapping with Lightroom by sariyoh

sariyoh — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:56:04 +0000

so nice! it adds more life to the photo.. thanks!

Comment on Using ICC profiles with Canon printers by albert

albert — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:28:28 +0000

Hi Peaches
I do not know the i9100, but I suspect the names of the profiles are the same (PR1, SP3, etc) as the profiles relate to the paper used. Providing you installed the printer driver using the CD that came with your printer, these profiles should be on your system.