You don't need an action. Convert one photo to B&W that has a lot of tonal range, make one curve, fiddling and printing til you reach as neutral as you think you can get, save that curve, and use it thereafter on every other photo.
Making the curve may require quite a few test prints, so do a bunch of small ones til they look right, then do some larger ones to tweak your curves. Took me about 3 hours.
Any adjustment layer can be saved when it's dialogue is up; just double click in the layers palette on the curves. I saved it as "RefillColorCorrectionCurve" although you might want some shorter name like "FixTheFrigginOlympus".
I don't find this solution perfect, but it sure put me in the ballpark.
-Lon
William Robb wrote:
Thanks Lon. Thats probably as good an answer as I am going to get. I was thinking along the same lines. Did you make an action out of it? Bill
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lon Williamson"
Subject: Re:
Here's an unsophisticated approach that I use to tame one of my printers using third party inks:
I simply converted a photo to B&W, then used a curves layer to get the thing to print as neutral as possible. I saved the curve, and load it in on any picture associated with that printer and those inks.
I usually need very few tweaks, on a couple of test prints, to get a final result that's acceptable to me.
-Lon
William Robb wrote:
The fountain of knowledge has failed me miserably. I have just been given an Olympus P400 dye sub printer, and have
a
few questions.... The colour coming off it is not quite right (no surprise), but
the
profiling available in the driver seems rather crude. The fellow who gave it to me suggested that I should set up a
profile
for it, he implied using Photoshop for this, but didn't know how
to
do this. Any answers? Thanks
William Robb
