[filmscanners] Re: not enough memory?

["Berry Ives" <yvesberia@earthlink.net>]

on 7/13/04 8:47 AM, Bernie Kubiak at bkubs@comcast.net wrote:

> Berry,
>
> That's a question to toss to the folks at Adobe.  Unless you're doing
> real critical work, you probably don't need the profiles (sounds like
> heresy, I know).  Getting custom profiles done can be an expensive
> proposition.
>
> Bernie
>
> Berry Ives wrote:
>
>> Here is Epson's response:
>>
>>
>>> Photoshop Elements has a certail level of color control built in to the
>>> application but i not advanced enough to handle the full capabiities of ICC
>>> profiles.  Photoshop Elements 2 has slightly more support, but the full
>>> range of features and ways to apply the profiles is not available in the
>>> Elements version of Photoshop.  To use the ICC profiles correctly, you
>>> would need to be useing certified ICC profiiles in conjunction with a
>>> program that is certified to handle ICC profiles.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> So this would mean that I would need to upgrade to the full PS.  Has anyone
>> else used ICC profiles with Elements?  On a Mac or PC?
>>
>> Berry

Hi Bernie,

Frankly, I don't know how to ask the folks at Adobe anything.  They have a
useless forum where there is a lot of chatter about all kinds of details
that the software folks should have automated long ago in my opinion.

You go to the profiles area, and you have one option for Macs:  download a
4.2MB thing that may have nothing that I need.  There is no info or
selectivity provided about what you might need.

I am really pissed at how hard it is to do just this simple thing:

-using a Mac G4 with adequate memory
-using a Mac flat panel monitor
-using PS Elements
-using an Epson 2200
-using a standard Epson paper

to make the image on the screen match the printed image.  Now, is that so
bad?

All of that, one would think, would have been easily automated by now.  But
instead, I am asked to buy $600 software from Adobe, or a few hundred to
develop custom profiles (for standard products) or various and other sundry
gyrations.  You know, I am a photo artist, not a GD computer jock, and
frankly, all the computereze stuff bores me to hell.

Sorry to dump, but why is this so hard?  I don't even know really if buying
the full PS will solve this simple task.  What do you think?

Berry

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