Category Archives: Color Management

An analysis of the Image P3 color space

Posted on November 13, 2021 by Brian Lawler

About four years ago, Apple changed the color space of the iPhone from whatever it was (maybe sRGB?) to a new color space called Image P3. This is the color space used by flat panel TV screens. This was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Color Management, Photography, Printing and Printing Processes, Software | Tagged Apple iPhone color space, Brian Lawler, Chromix, ColorThink Pro, Image P3, iPhone embedded color space, Steve Upton, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Reminiscences of a prepress guy

Posted on September 12, 2019 by Brian Lawler

I am an old prepress guy. I owned one of the first PostScript service bureaus in the U.S. I was there at the beginning. It was painful, but overall it was a great business. We had been traditional typographers, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Color Management, History, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Software | Tagged Antique press, Cal Poly, Color separation files from Illustrator, Golding Pearl restoration, Shakespeare Press Museum, Spot-color separations from Illustrator | Leave a comment

My new Canon EOS R mirrorless camera
and a new world of high ISO shooting

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Brian Lawler

I was excited when Canon and Nikon both announced their mirrorless pro (or semi-pro) cameras last fall. The time had come. Sony has been in the market for three generations now, and Canon had made a few attempts (EOS M, … Continue reading →

Posted in Color Management, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Software, Web | Tagged Adobe Camera Raw, Brian Lawler, Canon EOS R, EOS R, Festival Mozaic, mirrorless camera, noise reduction, Scott Yoo | Leave a comment

A pretty good argument for using ProPhoto RGB
as your working color space

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Brian Lawler

Photographers discovered 20 years ago that sRGB is a really bad color space for professional photography. So we all changed to Adobe RGB 1998. The reasons for doing so are important: Adobe RGB has a larger overall gamut, and conversion … Continue reading →

Posted in Color Management, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Software, Technology, Uncategorized | Tagged Adobe RGB 1998, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Canon 6D, Christopher Campbell, color gamuts, ColorThink Pro, fine art photography, ProPhoto RGB | Leave a comment

Ink is a terrible thing to waste

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Brian Lawler

I’m teaching this semester in Munich, Germany, at the Hochschule München, or more correctly, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften München. It’s just a few blocks from the city center on Tram route 20. We have about 20,000 students on several campuses. … Continue reading →

Posted in Color Management, Photography, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology | Tagged Brian Lawler, clogged ink-jet nozzles, color management, Epson 9900, Epson ink-jet, Hochschule Munchen, idel ink-jet printer | 4 Comments

Calibrating the iPhone with i1 Display Pro

Posted on November 15, 2015 by Brian Lawler

I see iPhones being used for all sorts of “professional” applications including video capture, and now that the phone sports a 12Mp camera, graphic arts quality photography. No excuses professional photography. Several years ago I was made aware of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Color Management, Digital video, Gadgets, Photography, Printing and Printing Processes, Software, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, calibrating the iPhone, ColorTRUE, i1 Display, iPhone calibration, MyPantone, Pantone, X-Rite | Leave a comment

My mission to Mars, continued

Posted on October 17, 2015 by Brian Lawler

In a blog I posted last year, I described how I developed a series of AppleScripts to control Adobe Photoshop to crop, then increase the canvas size, then draw crop marks on a series of image parts to make a … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Art, Color Management, Education, Imposition and Pagination, New technology, Panoramic Photography, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Software | Tagged AppleScripting Photoshop, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, COSAM, dye-sublimation, Mars Rover, MER, Opportunity Rover, Victoria Crater | 2 Comments

My brief visit to Mars

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Brian Lawler

I spent a couple of weeks on Mars earlier this year, on assignment to take some photos. There was no oxygen, so I had to hold my breath for two weeks. I did not run into Matt Damon. The work … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Color Management, History, Panoramic Photography, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Software | Tagged Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, COSAM, Cuck Bay, JPL, Mars MER, Mars Rover, NASA, Victoria Crater | Leave a comment

It must be a Mirage!
My large file printing problems are solved

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Brian Lawler

Following this blog, you have been exposed to the trials of printing very large photos on a wide-format Epson ink-jet printer. I have been feeling like a beta tester the last month or so, discovering all of the reasons why … Continue reading →

Posted in Color Management, New technology, Panoramic Photography, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Software | Tagged Dinax.de, Epson ink-jet printers, long-roll printing, Mirage printing software, Mirage software, overcoming file size limitations in Photoshop | 18 Comments

The 32,767-pixel limit: I should learn to read dialog boxes!

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Brian Lawler

That didn’t work quite as planned. In my large scale printing project, I started late last night to print the first of 17 strips of my huge panoramic photo 44 inches by ten feet in length. My original photo is … Continue reading →

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