John Beardmore wrote: > Hal V. Engel wrote: >> On Wednesday 02 September 2009 02:29:18 pm Gregory Pittman wrote: >>> On 09/02/2009 04:35 PM, davecs wrote: > < big snip > > > Again this brings me back to the notion that for many people, having > something like the Gimp Tools->Colour Tools->Adjust Curves control to > adjust printed output would be really handy if the bulk of material in a > document is too light, too dark etc.
Now this is just crystal-ball wishfull thinking, but envisage there would be a tool that works like this: 1. make a photograph (with lots of colours and contrast) with your camera without icc 2. print this photograph on your printer which also comes without icc 2. make a photograph of the resulting print under good lighting conditions (now, this is probably the weakest part, it would be better to scan it using a scanner that *does* have a colour profile) 3. - here comes the magic - run a program that analyses both photographs (or the photo and the scan) and automatically creates a colour profile combo for your printer and camera, such that at least any photograph from that camera that is printed by that printer will come out colour-true. Of course your monitor is completely out of view for a tool like this. However, your printer would at least give a good preview for what a professional printer will give you. This would of course even be easier if the printer is the only device without a proper icc profile, e.g. your camera and scanner both have an icc profile. (This was inspired by the brilliant thing my cheapo inkjet printer/scanner combo does: to calibrate the printer heads position, it prints a special page which you have to put under the scanner, which reads it and calculates the proper calibration values from it.) Vincent.
