>I am far from an expert, and have only used the XP calibrating tool Ah, there's something I don't know about! What IS the XP calibrating tool? Where would I find it? I read the gimp help manual info on calibration but it said I had to access these icc files that I don't have. Is the XP calibrating tool a feature of XP rather than gimp?
to >attempt to calibrate my monitor (hardly a definitive tool), so my prints never >match my monitor exactly, but they are certainly more than acceptable to view. Mine are acceptable - but I'm trying to produce a portfolio for actually marketing my photos, so I don't think acceptable is good enough. > Faces still look like faces, grass like grass, etc. Yeah, mine too, they're not THAT bad! - but colors come out too strong or detail is lost in darker areas, stuff like that. >If your prints are that >bad, there must certainly be some disconnect between your Gimp settings Where would I find Gimp color settings? Other than the calibration instructions that I don't seem to be able to follow at all given the files that came with my printer (i.e. no .icc files, or they actually seem to be embedded somewhere, because I did see a message that said "using something-or-other.icc embedded file to print grayscale") >and >the printer's settings. Perhaps you have both Gimp and the printer set to >make adjustments to the final print (not certain, frankly, if Gimp's printer >interface I'm not printing from Gimp any more - now printing from Word, which deals with the sizing problems easily, but has no impact on the color problems. >includes the option to select/deselect >software/printer control. I >don't think my problems were ever as bad as what you >describe, Well, I might just describe things worse than you do! >but I did go >through something similar trying to get acceptable skin tones in some of my >portraits. One thing I tried along the way was to download what I consider to >be a minimalist viewer to use strictly for printing. The application that I >used was Irfanview - it's free, and you can open and print from it without >worrying that it will try to auto-correct your photos. I don't know if you >are running Linux or Windows, and I believe it to be a Windows only program - >not certain. Running XP. I've printed from MS Paint and from Word, and that doesn't seem to make a difference - can't print from gimp at all because of the sizing issues. But either Word program is the same. > >. . . but there are probably Linux viewers that will print without >automatically trying to correct or adjust the images. You might want to try >one. > >I am certain that calibration would improve the accuracy of my colors, but, >unless you are doing work where that high degree of accuracy is necessary, I'm >not certain it's all that critical. Leaves should be green, sky should be >blue, the exact hue of both is best left to you, LOL. Well, but I'd like them to look like what I see on the screen. If I could calibrate my screen so it looked like the printer, then I could make intelligent adjustments in gimp, because what I'd see would be what was going to print out. > >Good luck in sorting out your problems. Thanks for your help! If you could refer me to the "xp calibrating tools" that might help! Joy -- Joy H. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
