I can't answer your question but I sure found your description of what you
do useful. I'll look forward to hearing what others have to say.

Lore

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Michael Rothman
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Well I've managed to get away without worrying about color calibration for
> quite awhile, but I will have to dig my head out of the proverbial sandpit
> of ignorance and ask for some advice from folks on the list.    Here goes:
> up until now, when I prepared illustrations in conventional media (typically
> graphite, pen & ink, or acrylics), I would scan the flat artworks at
> resolutions with a minimum of 400dpi for regular electronic output as JPEGs
> or TIFFs.   My clients would be generally regular publishers (including
> textbook publishers, children's book publishers, popular magazines, web
> sites, and the like), rarely have I had my artwork in technical publications
> were strict color calibration mattered.  So, I have been blissfully
> operating without fretting about how a color image looked on anyone else's
>  monitor except my own.  So some comments about commercial calibration
> software would be welcome.
>
> Most of the my stuff looked OK when published, not necessarily perfect, but
> generally pretty close.  Perhaps I'm actually being a bit too critical here:
> I normally calibrate my Mac laptop using the native OS utility and leave the
> color space as sRGB IEC61966-2.1, paint under an even mixture of 1:1
> daylight florescent bulbs to warm florescent bulbs and, most critically,
> always include a Kodak color calibration strip adjacent to the "live art".
> After scanning the illustration, I compare the original artwork and the
> physical Kodak strip against the resulting image up on my screen.  I work
> with the contrast, saturation, lightness/darkness, color balance, and
> sharpness settings on the computer until I get a good match for the real
> artwork while viewing it under the same studio lighting conditions under
> which it was created.   (I generally send out large pieces for digital
> capture to regular labs that have scanning/image capture services).   The
> process has worked for me up to n!
>  ow.   However, a client for whom I will be preparing a series of small
> murals needs to have the work supplied as files which have been fully
> calibrated via dedicated calibration software.    So, my question is, can
> anyone on the list recommend a reasonably priced software package that would
> allow me to send out digital files (TIFFs most likely, but possibly CYMK on
> occasion), to a clients?       I realize that there have been previous
> discussions about calibration software, but  I don't remember how to
> retrieve those exchanges from the archives.
>
> Thanks for any help or advice on this,
> Mike R.
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