Thanks Mark On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > Fernando wrote: > >>I'm walking my first steps into the overwhelming world of color >>management. Any of the gurus can help me with a couple of questions?: >> >>+ How often are you supposed to calibrate an LCD monitor. > > It depends on how critical/neurotic you are. LCD monitors are pretty > stable and if you're not sending files out for extremely critical fine > art printing I'd say once a month is fine. > >>+ If I want to use ProphotoRGB as my color space, I heard that this is >>a gamma 1.8 color space (as opposed to AdobeRGB and sRGB that are >>gamma 2.2). Does this mean that to use ProPhotoRGB I should calibrate >>for gamma 1.8 instead of 2.2? > > Nope. If you're using color managed software like Photoshop the ICC > profile for ProPhoto RGB will take care of the rendering. > > Calibrate and profile your monitor for 2.2 gamma and 6500K white > point. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
-- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
