When printing your own photos at home, remember to calibrate the printer for each batch of photos. Modern printers are equipped with all the features that allow you to automatically adjust the print color, but only the trained eye of a photographer or artist can choose the shades he needs.
Necessary
- - Adobe Photoshop software;
- - photo printer;
- - plugin ProfilerPro.
Instructions
Step 1
If you look closely at the printing process, you can see some of the subtleties of the materials used and processed. For example, the ratio of paper to ink is an integral part of printing, where paper is not just a sheet of white color, but a kind of storage, from the appearance of which the finished pictures will look different. Therefore, each type of paper must undergo the next calibration of the printer.
Step 2
For a beginner in this business, it is not yet clear why they are constantly calibrating, but an experienced photographer or artist will point out the disadvantages of such a "standard" print. The image that you see on the monitor can be very different from what you see in the image you just printed.
Step 3
Professional photographers use different programs when processing photographs, many prefer the already famous Adobe Photoshop program. This graphic editor is not difficult to install, and the possibilities it offers should be enough for any photo artist. To calibrate the color gamut of the output image, you can use the ProfilerPro plugin.
Step 4
After installing this plug-in in the program settings, you must select the Adobe RGB workspace. When starting this plug-in, you need to make a choice of two items, activate the item ProfilerPro.
Step 5
In the main window, select the item "Load calibration table for scanner". You will see a beautiful table that needs to be printed, click the "Print" button.
Step 6
In the print settings window that opens, go to the "Color Management" section, select the "Print Profile" item, then activate the Same as source option.
Step 7
In the settings of the printer itself, you must disable the color correction option. By these actions, we set printing without processing the internal filters of the program and the printer.
Step 8
This way you get a "clear image" that looks exactly like it does on screen. If you need to change the gamma or correct one of the colors, this can be done through the plugin's internal interface.
