[filmscanners] Re: not enough memory?

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

on 7/13/04 7:54 PM, Berry Ives at yvesberia@earthlink.net wrote:

> 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
I should have said, to be technically correct, "to make the image from the
printer match the image on the screen."

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