C. D. Tobie Takes Second Microsoft MVP Award
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Datacolor's Product Technology Manager C. David Tobie has been awarded the Microsoft MVP Award for the second consecutive year. The 2008 MVP Award underscores David's personal involvement with photo-imaging users worldwide, as well as Datacolor's ongoing involvement with Microsoft, assuring that color management is available across platforms, to our full range of Mac and Windows users. If David's photo of the Tuscan landscape looks familiar, it should: its one of the images used in the SpyderProof feature included in the Spyder3 line of products. Congratulations David, and keep up the good work.
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Photo by C. David Tobie |
Expert Advice
Spyder3Print Easter Egg
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Technically, an Easter Egg is an undocumented feature or function. This particular function is noted in the SpyderProof help, but otherwise unmentioned, so its an "Easter Egg" to most users. When in Spyder3Print's SpyderProof window (this is not a function in the display calibration products, only S3Print) you can change from the test photos to a copy of the ordered 729 patch target for checking the overall gamut of your printer.
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To do so, click on the image area, while holding down the Control key. If you wish to change Rendering Intents or SoftProof states, you'll need to Control-Click again to return to the Target. This option can be used to view the entire gamut of your printer/inks/paper combination quickly and easily on screen. It should be a good match to your printed targets, for all areas that are inside your display's gamut.
Spyder3Print OS X Leopard Update Available
Please check the Software Updates section of our website for the latest version of Spyder3Print. This update fixes superficial issues with running Spyder3Print under Mac OS X 10.5, aka: Leopard. If you aren't on a Mac, or aren't yet running Leopard, you won't need this update. If you are running Leopard, please download Spyder3Print 3.0.1, and install over your existing copy of Spyder3Print 3.0 to correct screen refresh issues.
Photoshop Tip of the Month
Getting Back to The Default Colors
To instantly reset the Tool palette's color picker to its default settings of Black for foreground and White for background, just press the letter "D" on your keyboard. To swap the foreground and background colors, just press the letter "X".
Featured Photographer
Carolyn Frayn
Carolyn Frayn is a Canadian photographer, artist, graphic designer, website developer and fine art printmaker. She has been involved in creative endeavors for over 25 years, known globally for her evocative, ethereal imagery, receiving attention with series like Inhabitance, a body of work captured with a pinhole camera that explores the feminine spirit, hoping to transcend literal representation.
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Photo by Carolyn Frayn
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Photo by Carolyn Frayn
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She won the Cone Piezography Print Contest in 2004, and spent a week as photographer in residence at Cone Editions Studio. Gallery shows within the last five years, included her fine art prints, mixed media and cradled encaustic pieces from several series. She is now focusing much of her time expanding her bodies of work for gallery representation.
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"I feel fortunate to have found myself immersed in the transition from tradition to digital photography, art and design these many years. My work has evolved along with the processes used, and I have also enjoyed taking part in beta testing some of the fine inks and color management innovations along the way. It never ceases to thrill me that these seemingly diverse and at times highly debated processes combine so well within my workflow."
To see more of Carolyn's work, please go to carolynfrayn.com
Testimonial
Spyder3Studio for Total Control of Abstract Art Prints
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I have recently adopted Spyder3Studio, and find it invaluable. I require complete control within my own workflow; and the one area where I did not have that control was profiling. With the Spyder3 products a fully color managed workflow has been achieved. Starting off with a calibrated monitor using Spyder3Elite, then using Spyder3Print to profile my papers and inksets, I can produce prints that totally satisfy.
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I go directly to the expert mode, and appreciate the various inputs that allow the user to generate different profile mixes from the same target measurements. My prints now hold the subtle separations in the files and keep the shadow areas true, all being accurately represented when soft-proofing in Photoshop. Some of my abstract work is difficult to print, heavy on soft tonal transitions and areas of subtle hue shifts. They have rarely worked well with any profile I had previously tried. I use a variety of non OEM paper, and now profile them all using this little gem.
-Carolyn Frayn
Recent Coverage
We are constantly working to make color management more effective, affordable and easy to use. Here are some of our most recent sightings:
Spyder3
Spyder3Elite Radio Review (Reviewer's Corner)
Spyder3Pro - Review (Northlight Images)
David Ziser's Special Finishing Touches
Read more reviews at: http://www.colorvision.com/reviews.php.
