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A more general color guide used by photographers is the MacBeth ColorChart, which is a set of 24 basic colors and greys, they're all chosen carefully so that if the color balance is wrong, at least one color will stand out as mismatched when you compare it to the original chart.

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Of course, a printout of this is absolutely unintelligible except to a colorimeter, but if you have a full color calibration system, these are essential. There are other sorts of high-tech test images, like the IT8 test pattern. I like to create my own step wedge charts in Adobe Illustrator, so I can test exactly the features I want to see. The one thing it won't do is test out the fancier PostScript features, it's just a bitmap image. Ole no Moire also has step wedges on the image. In that regard, one of my favorite test images is 'Ole No Moire' that used to come in versions of Photoshop (I don't think it comes in current versions, I haven't seen it in years).

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After working in prepress a few years, I found that I can tell if a color separation is OK just by looking at the individual C M Y and K negatives, if I look at skin tones in a face. Skin tones tend to be pale and even a slight miscalibration will cause dramatic color shifts.

Oftentimes the woman is a pale redhead, as those particular skin and hair tones are hard to render in print, but easy to see if they are not rendered correctly. These beauties, in general, have golden colored eyes, along with black paw pads. Shorthairs, of course, are smooth and shiny, while longhairs have coats that are thicker and fluffier. Hope this aids you in your obsessive-compulsive quest to achieve satisfaction from knowing every little defect in your printer.įor many years, Photographers have used test shots of women, they nicknamed her Shirley for no reason I've ever been able to figure out. Although the breed possibilities are numerous, a large percentage of black felines who are not mixed breeds are domestic - or American - shorthairs or longhairs. Thanks for finally motivating me to do some research. I have been thinking about this on and off for a while now (still stuck in lowly inkjet-land).

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It works nonetheless.įollowing with the previous recommendation of finding a vibrant nature photo, I located a rather beautiful photograph (free registration required for download) of the Grand Canyon with a large variety of colors at 1200x1600x24. According to the CNET Labs printer page, this is 'the industry-accepted PhotoDisc Target document.' Not sure about that (especially with the website logo in the corner of the image), but whatever. Here is another test photo of the same style as the first one. Included on the image are several Kodak color charts, along with a variety of household objects and several faces of varying skin colors.

It is 2297x3600x24 at a resolution of 360 pixels per inch for a final image size of 6.381x10 inches. Here is a test image that I believe was designed for printer/monitor color calibration (I dredged it up from the data recovered from a hard drive failure a while back). APhotoDisc ColorGuide - Coverthumb.jpg: 2 06:26: 2.7K: PhotoDisc ColorGuide - Back.jpg: 2 05:20: 393.8K: PhotoDisc ColorGuide - Backthumb.jpg: 2 06:27: 4.4K: PhotoDisc ColorGuide - Booklet 1.jpg: 2 05:20: 499.4K: PhotoDisc ColorGuide - Booklet 10.jpg: 2 05:20: 852.0K: PhotoDisc ColorGuide.