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Datacolor Proudly Sponsors Bogen Café

Bogen Imaging, a leading distributor of bogencafe2atop quality photographic support products and accessories in North America, is proud to announce a new education program entitled Bogen Café, www.bogencafe.com. The Café is a workshop environment offered to college students that explores imaging topics in actual situations that are rarely discovered within the confines of a classroom.

To kick-off each workshop there will be an evening lecture that showcases the work of Steven Katzman, a self-taught photographer, author, and professor of photography at Ringling College of Art and Design (RCAD), Sarasota, FL, one of the top four-year accredited art schools in the country. This highly motivational lecture will be open to the entire student body and the local photographic community. The next day will be comprised of two workshop courses that have been selected by the college and is open only to the student body. The workshop will be followed up the next day with a program at a participating photographic dealer.

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Testimonial: Lightroom and PrintFIX PRO 2.0 - A Perfect Pair
By Michael Colby

I am now a believer. I just got back from a trip to Tokyo where I shot a several hundred photos in and around Shinjuku and Shibuya and using Adobe Lightroom edited them in color or B&W, based on my perception on how I thought each image worked. (initial edits, done on a color corrected laptop, are posted at http://www.pbase.com/troutco/tokyojuly2007).

You'll see the B&W photos are each tinted, to my taste, based on how I felt the image worked (some have a warm tone, some a colder tone, some a neutral tone). Some of the photos are color with specific colors intentionally desaturated. So far, printing out proofs at home tonight, using an Epson R2400, on Costco $18.95 semi-glossy, using my PrintFIX PRO 2.0 extended color/B&W profile for the paper, (without any tweaking of the profile) they look very good. My cursory reviews of them in less than ideal lighting is very impressive. I don't see any color casts, The toned colors look close enough to those on my desktop's color profiled CRT and LCD to win a horseshoe contest.

Read more at http://www.colorvision.com/test2.php#28.

Expert Advice: Guest Expert, Michael Colby
Lightroom Color Control and Printing Techniques

Applying PrintFIX PRO 2.0 profiles in Adobe Lightroom® is pretty much the same as applying them in Photoshop® CS2 or 3. Select a Gray Augmented PFP profile and sett the printer driver options "Use ICM" and "Disable Color Adjustments" in the printer driver. Lightroom currently only provides 2 rendering intents for printing directly to an inkjet printer ("relative" and "perceptual") compared to 4 intents available in Photoshop. Once those are set its easy printing: Lightroom provides sensible and logical controls for setting margins and borders and reviewing layout in advance of printing.

Full color images, images with selectively desaturated color ranges, neutral black and white, and a wide range of tinted black and white can be produced, previewed, and printed directly from Lightroom, using the PrintFIX PRO 2.0 "Gray Augmented" profile to preview and print the results.

Photoshop Tip of the Month
Get the Zoom Temporarily

To temporarily switch any tool you're working with to the Magnifying Glass tool, just hold the Command-Spacebar (Control-Spacebar on a PC).

Imaging-Resource.com Begins Monitor & Calibration Coverage
By Dave Etchells, The Imaging Resource

We're going to begin covering higher-end monitors and calibration products, and have struck a deal with ColorVision to encourage more of our readers to get (and keep) their monitors calibrated.

As you might expect, it's important for an organization like Imaging-Resource.com to have well-calibrated monitors. After all, a lot of people rely on our comments about image quality to make their camera-buying decisions.

In the past, we'd used a variety of monitor calibrators, but never settled on any one as our "official" standard. For the sake of consistency, critical judgements were made after viewing the images on my own monitors, a combination of an old CRT with beautiful tonality and a newer Apple Cinema display, both of which I kept calibrated with a ColorVision Spyder2PRO. While all our monitors were undoubtedly in much better shape than those of our readers, I decided that we really needed to do some upgrading and standardize on a calibration solution for the company as a whole. With that as motivation, I took a broad and pretty deep look at what solutions were on the market, and how well they fit our requirements.

Read more at http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1185905190.html.

Featured Photographer
David Ziser

Photographer David Ziser is a nationally renowned wedding photographer. He lectures to other photographers on international speaking circuit and writes extensively for professional journals throughout the United States and worldwide.

To read more about David, check out his biography and blog.

Recent Reviews
We are constantly working to make color management more effective, affordable and easy to use. Here are some of our most recent sightings:

PrintFIX Pro Suite
Editor's Choice 2007: Imaging Essentials (American Photo)

Read more reviews at: http://www.colorvision.com/reviews.php.