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Category Archives: Color Management
My mission to Mars, continued
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
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My brief visit to Mars
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
It must be a Mirage!
My large file printing problems are solved
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
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The 32,767-pixel limit: I should learn to read dialog boxes!
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
China, day four-point-three
We awoke yesterday and boarded a big green bus, heading north from Hong Kong into mainland China. Our objective was to visit three of China’s largest commercial printing companies, each known for quality and high volume. Crossing the border from … Continue reading
Hong Kong, Day three-point-seven
I think. Yesterday was the ICC Symposium at the Hong Kong Design Institute. We were expecting about 450 participants, and over 700 attended. The large auditorium at the center was filled, and they stayed all the way to the end. … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Color Management, People, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Software, Technology
Tagged Brian Lawler, color management, Hong Kong Design Institute, Hong Kong Printers Association, ICC, ICC Symposium, John Seymour, Max Derhak, Ragy Isaac, Steve Smiley, Tom Lianza, William Li
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ePrint is setting records in Hong Kong printing community
It’s VistaPrint for Hong Kong. But less aggressive and irritating. On our tours yesterday of printing plants in Hong Kong, we visited a company called ePrint, which is a largely web-based commercial printing company. They specialize in – everything. Their … Continue reading
Hong Kong Day Two
On my outings on Sunday in Hong Kong I had a chance to take the Star Ferry across Victoria Harbor to Hong Kong Island where my friend John Seymour and I had lunch. The weather was tempestuous, and we watched … Continue reading
Kalifornia to Kowloon for Kolor
I’m in Hong Kong this week to attend the ICC conference. I composed this en route: Kowloon via San Luis Obispo, San Jose and San Francisco A melodrama in seven acts I have been sitting in a nearly upright chair … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Art, Color Management, Typography
Tagged art, art in public places, mosaic art, Rigo, Robert Zoell, San Francisco, San Francisco Airport, typographic art
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Details on scanning film with the Epson scanner
In two earlier blogs I described how I set up a large tabletop arrangement to scan historic panoramic negatives on my Epson Perfection scanner. When using the Epson scanner with the Epson Scan software (you can control the Epson scanner … Continue reading