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Eddie, make sure the book you buy is the Second Edition and not the first one. The cover must state Second Edition. You can get it from amazon.com after you read this book then you are ready for Frazer book.

Now, I think I better mention this, one think many people don't understand and I did not for a while and that is that we need to profile the printer also. The printer must be calibrated and for that I used cathysprofiles.com "One hand wash the other and both wash the face." This is a combination or team work setup monitor, printer, ink and paper they have to be in synch for you to get the best quality of picture your equipm,ent is capable of producing. Don't take me wrong manufacturers profiles are good specially those from Epson, but a custom profile is the very best. After investing all the money on equipment and get half way decent prints is desapointing to say the least. So to invest $35.00 on a personalised profile that will improove your printing quality 100% is chicken feed.

Now the Color Settings in Photoshop must be in synch with the Printer Drivers and the paper, ink profile. You can't assign Photoshop to manage Color and then in the Printer Driver have the printer manage color, that wont work. You will get dark, light or out of gamut prints.

Hope this help some one here.
Shalom,
Don
A well conseived image is a poem written with light.
PSE6 - Lightroom - CS3 - Win-Vista -Epson 7800
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Don, Thanks for taking the time out to help us printing novices out. One quick question..I followed your link to kathysprofiles and will get my printer profiled. When I make a print for the printer profile do I let the printer manage it or Adobe photoshop or Lightroom. I prefer the ease of the printing module in Lightroom so most of my printing will come from this source. I assume that in the download you get from kathy that all explicate instruction are included so as to get the correct profile.
Thanks again,
Eddie
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A pleassure to be of help. No, you always use Photoshop never the printer. Cathy suggested to do the profiling in Photoshop I did it using CS3 but if you do not have that you can use Elements. Once you have done the profiling in Photoshop yopu can then use it on LR. I use Photoshop 1998 Color Space for everything. By the way you get 3 profiles for the price of one and you can use them for B&W also. My shadows in my B&W are much better with the new profiles.

I'am happy that you desided to profile your printer you will see the big difference. It is important that you get a balanced 5000k light to view your prints. I'am not at my studio now but i will post back to you with the information about the light.
Shalom,
Don
A well conseived image is a poem written with light.
PSE6 - Lightroom - CS3 - Win-Vista -Epson 7800
Nikon D80 - D-700 - Canon G9
http://www.condeimaging.com
Don, Got the book from Borders today at a 40 % discount so it was for a good price. Will read and then get the profiles from Cathy's profile for my printer. Thanks again for the great tips and also Happy Holiday.
Eddie :D
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