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I have a fujifilm f810. I would like to calibrate the colors of its
resulting images so that they're as close to natural as possible. I
also have an office-use-type all-in-one canon smartbase mp360
scanner-printer. I also have paintshop pro 9 and would like to make a
script to batch process all the resulting images from the camera so
they are color corrected.

I understand so far that I would need a gretagmacbeth colorchecker. No
problem, I'll order one. What next?

"Mike Henley" <> wrote in message
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>I have a fujifilm f810. I would like to calibrate the colors of its
> resulting images so that they're as close to natural as possible. I
> also have an office-use-type all-in-one canon smartbase mp360
> scanner-printer. I also have paintshop pro 9 and would like to make a
> script to batch process all the resulting images from the camera so
> they are color corrected.
>
> I understand so far that I would need a gretagmacbeth colorchecker. No
> problem, I'll order one. What next?

Before you spring for a color checker, try the procedure at
http://campratty.com/1faq/faqpages/b9a.html.

There is a lot more good info for psp at campratty.com.

With constant use of custom white balance you will get where you want to be.
Since I am not that anal and forget to set it....I just shoot RAW and make
those decisions later. Because you can use last group of settings it is a
bit automated...but could be better.

Right now my workflow is to pull off my ORF files from the camera using
Adobe's DNG and use them for RAW processing....that gets 90% of my photos
ready to print.

"Mike Henley" <> wrote in message
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> I have a fujifilm f810. I would like to calibrate the colors of its
> resulting images so that they're as close to natural as possible. I
> also have an office-use-type all-in-one canon smartbase mp360
> scanner-printer. I also have paintshop pro 9 and would like to make a
> script to batch process all the resulting images from the camera so
> they are color corrected.
>
> I understand so far that I would need a gretagmacbeth colorchecker. No
> problem, I'll order one. What next?

"Marvin Margoshes" <> wrote in message news:<>...
> "Mike Henley" <> wrote in message
> news: om...
> >I have a fujifilm f810. I would like to calibrate the colors of its
> > resulting images so that they're as close to natural as possible. I
> > also have an office-use-type all-in-one canon smartbase mp360
> > scanner-printer. I also have paintshop pro 9 and would like to make a
> > script to batch process all the resulting images from the camera so
> > they are color corrected.
> >
> > I understand so far that I would need a gretagmacbeth colorchecker. No
> > problem, I'll order one. What next?
>
> Before you spring for a color checker, try the procedure at
> http://campratty.com/1faq/faqpages/b9a.html.
>
> There is a lot more good info for psp at campratty.com.

Okay, I don't want to calibrate the monitor or the printer. I want to
calibrate the images I get from the camera. Different cameras will
capture the same color chart with different color accuracy; how can I
make sure that the images I get from the camera can be
color-corrected? I'm assuming there is a software that can help me do
that so I can eventually allow me to shift colors so they are
accurate.

Mike Henley wrote:

> "Marvin Margoshes" <> wrote in message news:<>...
>
>>"Mike Henley" <> wrote in message
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>>
>>>I have a fujifilm f810. I would like to calibrate the colors of its
>>>resulting images so that they're as close to natural as possible. I
>>>also have an office-use-type all-in-one canon smartbase mp360
>>>scanner-printer. I also have paintshop pro 9 and would like to make a
>>>script to batch process all the resulting images from the camera so
>>>they are color corrected.
>>>
>>>I understand so far that I would need a gretagmacbeth colorchecker. No
>>>problem, I'll order one. What next?
>>
>>Before you spring for a color checker, try the procedure at
>>http://campratty.com/1faq/faqpages/b9a.html.
>>
>>There is a lot more good info for psp at campratty.com.
>
>
> Okay, I don't want to calibrate the monitor or the printer. I want to
> calibrate the images I get from the camera. Different cameras will
> capture the same color chart with different color accuracy; how can I
> make sure that the images I get from the camera can be
> color-corrected? I'm assuming there is a software that can help me do
> that so I can eventually allow me to shift colors so they are
> accurate.


But if your monitor isn't calibrated, how do you know what needs to be
done to the images it displays?

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jer email reply - I am not a 'ten'

>
>But if your monitor isn't calibrated, how do you know what needs to be
>done to the images it displays?

Well I'm hoping a software can measure the color accuracy in the images the
camera give and I want to know what process I can do to correct them. I just
simply want the most accurate colors i can get. I'm hoping eventually that some
software can give me enough information about the color error so I can make a
script with PSP9 and have colors corrected.

You see, something like this

http://www.imatest.com/docs/colorcheck.html

Now, I'm wondering if someone has done something similar to this. What other
programs they've used, what process. I mean, I'm sure all those people who'd
been using colorchecker for a long time now are using something.