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Color Checker Passport does EXTREME color correction.
0I’m sure you’ve encountered this problem before. Lighting conditions that are so bad that even a custom white balance in camera simply cannot fix. And you don’t have time or perhaps don’t have the skill to correct for these color errors on your own in …
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Get the best of your Pro Lab
First off, do feel free to read back to my lengthy review of a number of professional labs as well as several chain stores and other popular printers to understand better what labs may give you the best service for your money. The Big Lab …
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X-Rite ColorChecker Passport – Test and Review
First off, a quick history on the ColorChecker: “The Munsell ColorChecker—first produced as the Macbeth ColorChecker in 1976 and still widely known as the Gretag Macbeth ColorChecker—a cardboard-framed arrangement of twenty-four squares of painted samples based on Munsell colors. Its maker Munsell Labs and parent …
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Camera setup for HDR shooting.
The best camera setup for shooting photos to be used in HDR conversions is roughly the same as a careful setup for landscape or just any other type of carefully planned photograph. However, in order to get the best captures we can to work with, …
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The Big Lab Throwdown – Final Results
Here it is, more than a month in the making! Many thanks to the people who helped make it possible by either supporting with donations or suggesting labs for testing. First before I start into the results. Please do remember that the color results are …
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The Big Lab Throwdown – Update 2
So it has been a week or so since the last update and some more orders have been placed and most labs are now accounted for in the test. Just to give an idea what labs are under the microscope, I made the decision to …
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Screen Calibrated – Tests & Results
As I already mentioned in my post earlier this week, I was alerted to the color of some of my images may be too red and in some cases perhaps too saturated as well. What I have been doing for calibration for about the last …
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Screen calibrated?
Not mine apparently… After receiving many comments that my images were “too red”, I decided to check into the matter. Considering I own two calibration devices already, I figured I had it under control. As it turns out, the calibration had been wrong. In fact, …
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Get better backgrounds.
You know you are guilty of it. Trying to retouch the background flat white (or black) and you missed a spot. Now your prints are back from the lab and you have an ugly dark spot that didn’t show up on the screen but there …
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Weakest Link of Monitor Calibraiton
Surely everyone in graphics and photography knows the importance of a well calibrated monitor by now. But a well calibrated monitor is only as good as it’s weakest link. Let us discuss what can go wrong. A proper calibration should take into account more than …
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