June 2008

Photo by Ed Kashi

IN THIS ISSUE: Firefox 3 Color Management » Expert Advice » Photoshop Tip of the Month » Featured Photographer » Testimonial » Recent Coverage » Spyder Feedback Survey » Video Tutorials » SPYDER FEEDBACK SURVEY Thanks to everyone who participated in our Spyder Feedback survey! We received an overwhelming number of responses, and will use your feedback to better our products. The winner of the prize drawing was Angel G., from Florida, who will receive a Wacom Intuos3 6x11 Wideformat USB tablet! VIDEO TUTORIALS The new Videos page in the Learning area of our website includes video tutorials on how to use and get the most out of your Datacolor Spyder3 products. We've been updating our library online and now have 5 Spyder3Print tutorials on how to create custom ICC profiles and 4 videos on Spyder3Pro/Elite for display calibration. Visit the Videos page to see all available tutorials FEEDBACK If you have any feedback, good or bad, about Datacolor's Spyder line of products, we'd like to hear it. Please don't hesitate to email me at marketing@datacolor.com. Krista Behrend, Worldwide Product Manager

A New Color Managed Web Browser Firefox® 3 Offers Color Management The only recent web browser to support color management, and use your custom display profile to display images, has been Safari. Safari is the most common browser on the Mac, but not at all common under Windows, so most Windows users have not had the opportunity to see managed color in browser windows. Firefox® v3 offers managed browser color to a wider audience, and supports both Mac and Windows. Firefox 3 is now in public beta, to download a copy go to: http://www.mozilla.com To turn on color management under Firefox 3 enter the following text in the address bar: about:config Next enter the following into the filter line: color_management Change gfx.color_management.enabled to: true Restart Firefox to activate this change and enjoy your color managed web browsing! Expert Advice SpyderProof™ Display Gamut Check The image in the upper left hand corner of SpyderProof includes a set of wide gamut color bars. These bars can be used to analyze the gamut of your display. How close to the maximum saturation patch in a color bar can you still distinguish steps? On a laptop, the steps merge only a few patches from the white bar at the center, on a standard desktop LCD, they can usually be distinguished a patch or two farther. And on a wide gamut display, even more levels are distinguishable. You can determine which colors your monitor displays best, by checking which bars show the most distinguishable patches, and compare one display to another to determine which has the larger color gamut.        Photoshop® Tip of the Month Highlighting Option Fields In Photoshop's Options Bar, you don't have to click-and-drag to highlight any of the options fields, just click directly on the field's name and it will highlight the field for you. Featured Photographer Ed Kashi Ed Kashi is a photojournalist, filmmaker and educator dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. A sensitive eye and an intimate relationship to his subjects are the signatures of his work. Kashi's complex imagery has been recognized for its compelling rendering of the human condition. Kashi's images have been published and exhibited worldwide. His innovative approach to photography and filmmaking produced the Iraqi Kurdistan Flipbook which used stills in a moving image format. Also, an eight-year personal project completed in 2003, Aging in America: The Years Ahead, created a traveling exhibition, an awardwinning documentary film, a website and a book. Along with numerous awards, Kashi's editorial assignments and personal projects have generated four books. In 2008, his latest books will be published; Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta and Three.      Self-portrait: Ed Kashi In 2002, Kashi and his wife, writer / filmmaker Julie Winokur, founded Talking Eyes Media. The non-profit company has produced numerous short films and multimedia pieces that explore significant social issues. The first project resulted in a book and traveling exhibition on uninsured Americans called, Denied: The Crisis of America's Uninsured. A one-hour documentary film pertaining to this crucial health care challenge is currently in production for release in mid-2008. To see more of Ed's work, please go to http://www.edkashi.com. Testimonial "My studio has used other color management tools for calibrating our monitors and printers, but we recently started to use Datacolor's Spyder3Studio and it's never been easier, more intuitive and effective for us to maintain our laptops, desktop monitors and finally have an integrated system of color management that works with our printers as well." - Ed Kashi, http://www.edkashi.com 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: Spyder3Elite Speedy Arachnids (HWM) Spyder3Studio Review of Datacolor Spyder3Studio (Perpetual Visions) Spyder3 Make Your "Colorblind" Computer See As You Do (Shutterbug) Read more reviews at: http://spyder.datacolor.com/reviews.php.