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Using Canon DPP with calibrated monitor
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I just calibrated my LCD monitor with the Eye-One-2 and have questions about printing with DPP. The program created ICC files that I believe I will use to configure the Color Management display and printing, but I don't know if my printer will print the AdobeRGB. Do I configure the monitor and printer to use the 2 files created? My camera is set to save files in sRGB, NOT AdobeRGB. Do I need to configure my camera to save in AdobeRGB to print with these DPP settings?
Posted at 5:38PM, 30 June 2009 PST
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I hope someone else chimes in here as I am not 100% on this but here is my take.
I would not go applying these profiles. I use an Eye One as well and it is strictly for screen calibration. Printer calibration is a whole other deal. Eye One should have applied the monitor profile on its own so you should not have to do that. There should have been a dialog at the end of the process that allowed you to see before and after with the new profile as opposed to the uncalibrated screen.
Eye One creates a color profile for your display to use so that what is represented on screen will appear identical (perfect world) on any other calibrated system. It does not matter whether you are working in sRGB or Adobe RGB with your camera. Of course you always output to sRGB for onscreen viewing and more often than not printing as well. sRGB and Adobe RGB control the gamut of colors your file can contain... whether you can see them or print them is a again another story.
I personally shoot in Adobe RGB and convert to sRGB on output. Others sRGB through and through... it is up to you. It does not affect what you did with Eye One. I hope that helps and I hope someone elaborates or corrects for you.
Posted 5 months ago.
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Yes, it did create a file in Windows XP in the folder:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\color\Monitor_7-1-2009_1.icc
Does this file load at system bootup so the monitor will display the final calibration?
You say you shoot in AdobeRGB and convert to sRGB on output. Any reason for that? Does DPP convert the file?
My reason for doing any of this is to print out as accurately as possible the picture I have edited in DPP so it looks like the final result on the monitor.
Posted 5 months ago.
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Eye One takes care of the background work. If you stepped through the program procedure it has applied the profile as evidenced by the last screen it shows that tells you exactly what it has done. You should possibly even see the profile loaded as you startup your computer as I see mine is pretty bright just as the desktop comes up and then loads the profile and looks as it should. You can also tell in the Display settings but I am on my Mac right now and not at my Win machine.
Like I said Eye One is for your display, not printer. Whole other ball game. You can get close using your printer's profile and letting it manage print color (as I do rather then my computer) but if you want it dead on you need another tool to calibrate your output and those are generally more expensive. Without it it will be trial and error until you find a place you are happy.
Why do I shoot Adobe RGB? Wider gamut of color than sRGB. I would rather start with the widest possible gamut of color the camera can provide and go down from there rather than starting with less and maintaining that throughout. Do I gain anything? I am not sure... I seem to think I do. Is it more work? slightly.
DPP will do the Adobe RGB --> sRGB conversion. I use DPP now and then but not frequently. It is getting better but it still lacks tools (or simpler and more efficient and precise ways) of doing things I accomplish in other softwares. I love the color though.
Posted 5 months ago.
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Thanks for the great advise!
Is is possible to use the same file created for the monitor profile and use it as the printing profile for the color management in DPP?
Posted 4 months ago.
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