On 11/23/06, Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, today, I had my first real experience printing digital photos > captured on digital. I'm using the same Epson Stylus Photo 820 that > I've been using the last several years, and I'm still on Photoshop 7. > My system is well enough color-calibrated that I don't think twice about > whether the print will match what I saw on screen. That's largely luck > or something, but that's another story.
Sounds like you have your ICC profiles set up properly. :-) I've been looking at replacing my 820 sometime soon. It probably won't happen before Christmas though, because there are other things eating up the money. If I can manage to keep the thing clean (windex on the sponge where the heads park), I still get some amazing output. > All I can say is "WOW!". Generating good to excellent prints took about > 90 seconds each ... load in PS, crop, 15 seconds in levels, set image > size for print size, print ... about 0.01 of the time I'm used to doing > to get a decent print of a film image scanned to digital. "WOW!" If you're using Photoshop CS2, and Adobe Bridge, shooting raw, you can do most of the levels/contrast/color adjustments in the raw converter. I usually only have to do a bit of cropping, and perhaps some curves, in Photoshop itself. The proof view in Photoshop has been a big help to me as well. I'm not _quite_ to the point where what I see on the screen is what I get from the printer, but it's pretty darned close, and I'm getting a feel for what I'll lose in the print vs. the screen. -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
