Hi Paul
23/7/03 10:01 am Paul Tansley <pt44-at-mac.com> wrote
>Trevor is definitely a great guy. He once helped me out when Gretag tried to
>screw me over their original misleading Eye-One package.
Trevor is a great help
sometimes the marketing dep't gets the better of colour companies, sadly.
Look at Apple Colorsync, it's great but it's not the push button colour
solution many beleived, on reading the blurb.
Colour Management, like any other high tech protocol is not as simple
as it may appear when it's seen working. Hardware and SW conflicts
(and complexities0 can get in the way of even the best products.
This is why I gave up on photography, keeping up with CM is a full time
job. Easy to use home solutions are often just too simplified.
>> The problem we were having with a magenta cast on LCD monitors has now been
>> completely corrected by using the Easy Mode.
>
>Hmm? Not really the sign of a professional product, we feel?
well , I used Advanced mode on my LCD here, and on the PB as I recall.
no probems here
but anyway I use basICColor Display now.
>What with the
>crap original manual that came with my Eye-One, and now this, it seems that
>a lot of "pro" products are actually "still in development" and we need to
>write the manuals ourselves.
yes, same with a lot of the computer world.
>You'd think with today's access to the WWW,
>that they could update their manuals "live" online, so that we could all be
>kept informed, but no, you have to learn the little tricks as you go along.
>So when you spend £2500 (that's what my original package cost) on a product,
>for god sake don't use it in advanced mode!!!! :-)
advanced is OK here.
but I agree, if it's flaky we should know.
>
>Paul
>
>PS - I'm in no way really knocking the Eye-One here. I love mine and have
>never regretted investing in it. It is a superb product. However, instances
>like the above are a joke, and should not happen.
I'd agree
>
>PPS - I'm particularly grieved, because I had the same Magenta problem last
>year, and it took me months to sort out. In the end I changed to using
>BasICColor Display,
a good move
>because no one could tell me what was going on. I even
>asked on this list, but no-one knew the answer, people just presume you are
>doing something wrong with the software. I mean, if the colour guru's (such
>as Neil B & Thomas) aren't aware of this Magenta issue with certain
>settings, on certain screens, then what hope is there for the rest of us
>poor suckers.
difficult to know about all the problems, this is the first time I've
heard of it with iOne display.. Thomas is on a well earned break. So quiet.
Regards, NeilB. Apple Solutions Expert
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