Inside Aperture

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• A fourth area?
  2007-09-28 09:48:27  Stephen_Wandzura [Reply | View]
  
  
  In the podcast we learned about 3 places where we need to attend to color management:
  
  1 - On-Screen Proofing
  2 - Printing
  3 - Exporting
  
  But how about camera color profiles? There is at least one choice to be made here - the profile you choose on the camera. Choices usually include at least sRGB and AdobeRGB? Some guidance here might be valuable...

• What if onscreen proofing goes bad?
  2007-04-18 02:52:13  beezeyeview [Reply | View]
  
  
  I have one particular HP8750 profile that is NOT working (one that contains the blue photo ink-tricolor-gray photo). What happens then? It is the primary profile that I use and I cannot allow Aperture to control the process. Something went wrong. These articles are fantastic - but what happens when onscreen proofing goes bad? Where do you go for information then? I have searched high and low with no results. It was working one day with the printer presets and the next it had a major colorcast.
• What if onscreen proofing goes bad?
  2007-04-26 04:48:13  cheechmaroon [Reply | View]
  
  
  Ahh! At least I'm not alone. I too have the 8750 and have called HP(who wanted a fee) and Apple. I have posted on the Aperture forum and found some more who use this combination and have the same problem. Something is dreadfully wrong with Aperture when it looks at the HP profiles. I'd like to say it that way since every other program seems to accurately translate the profiles for the 8750 except for Aperture. I get a sewage yellow cast to all my prints. When I use the generic profiles in Aperture, the prints turn out OK and similar to what's on screen. When printing with the 8750 profiles, it looks like what's on screen too..... which is reeallly really bad. The only way I can tell around this is to do a custom calibration with each paper you'll use. But, of course, that will cost you money for the hardware and needless time. We both bought this printer because all the reviews said that the included profiles were pretty spot on- other than the 8 inks. Come on, Apple... do me right and fix this please. (and please bring native support for Sigma DSLRs)

• Color in Aperture
  2007-02-16 07:01:39  Brownman [Reply | View]
  
  
  I thought that the interview was very insightful and the using of soft proofing has been very helpful in my work flow, but at times I forget. Its to bad that a large soft proof dose not come up as part of the printing process. I do hope that the Aperture team is putting a lot more work in the to print option in Aperture. It is one of the programs weakest links. I also hope that they put a lot work in to who they contract with for the production of the Books. The quality is not what we expect form Apple. This speaking of outputting work should be one place Aperture could shine with it color profile integration along with some quality control on it suppliers.