I'm thinking that if I looked at a brightness scale before each time I did work that I could get myself positioned properly. I am curious if any of the spyders work on LCD's?
I'm not sure I understand the difference between the photo and the actual color target. Is it something they supply or something you are supposed to buy? Are there other recommendations? Thanks, Bruce ............................. A few months ago I took a 2 day workshop in Photoshop and digital printing from www.westcoastimaging.com. I ended up buying a spider from them and buying the monitor they use on all the classroom macs. They said it is the best they have ever used including expensive special graphic arts monitors. The monitor is a NEC Multisynch FE700+ 17 inch crt monitor for $179 at Circuit City! They did not recomment flat panel and LCD monitors for serious PS work. Using the Color Pro spider I got my new monitor to ICC standards in fifteen minutes. I re-calibrated it after 100 days and found it had drifted less than 1 %. I quit printing my own prints for sale. Now I use www.pictopia.com for laser lightjet Fuji Crystal Archive RA-4 prints from 67 meg scans. Using the monitor, spider, and Pictopia profiles I get exactly what was on the monitor in an inexpensive archival matt or glossy print. I usually run PS6 on a PII Win98 machine but sometimes work on my Ibook Mac OS9.21. The NEC monitor runs on either computer with a brief spider re-calibration. I haven't uploaded any black and white images to Pictopia yet, but I hear they turn out fine. What a relief to be out of the printer/inks/paper/profiles/peizo/pigment/dye endless testing and experiment treadmill! When I compare Pictopia prints with chemical/optical prints I made last year on Fuji Crystal Archive the laser prints always win not even counting the ability to improve the image with PS. Bill Lawlor
