Mark D Segal

Mark D Segal

Toronto, ON

Mark has been making photographs for the past six decades and started adopting a digital workflow in 1999 first with scanning film, then going fully digital in 2004. He has worked with a considerable range of software, equipment, materials and techni...
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Four New Papers from Hahnemuehle

Four New Papers from Hahnemuehle

Introduction Hahnemühle recently introduced four new papers: • Bamboo Gloss Baryta (BGB) • Silk Baryta X (SBX) • Sustainable Photo Satin (SPS) •Photo Rag Matte Baryta (PRMB) Hahnemuehle was good enough to send me sufficient samples of each, allowing me to put...

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Two Moab Papers

Two Moab Papers

Two MOAB Papers Entrada Rag Natural 300 & Entrada Rag Natural Coldpress 300 Legion Paper recently introduced its Entrada Rag Natural Coldpress 300 (hereafter CP300) paper, so having used and liked its Juniper Baryta paper, I thought it would be useful to...

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Epson Legacy Baryta II Paper

Epson Legacy Baryta II Paper

Two Papers, Two Printers Readers will recall the unfortunate demise of a number of inkjet papers from several paper companies, all having the common characteristics of being luster-like paper with a baryta component. Epson is one such company, which sought to replace...

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    Mark D Segal
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    Which Paper for B&W Printing ?
    on: March 5, 2024 at 9:09 pm

    You are welcome.

    Mark D Segal Author: "Scanning Workflows with SilverFast 8, SilverFast HDR, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop". Please check the PhotoPXL Store for availability.

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    Re: Which Paper for B&W Printing ?
    Reply #1 on: March 5, 2024 at 9:01 pm

    You’ll also get fine results with Epson Legacy Baryta II and Epson Legacy Platine. There are also some new offerings from Hahnemuehle which I shall be reporting on this website in the coming weeks.

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    Re: Converting images to a media profile
    Reply #2 on: February 27, 2024 at 8:57 pm

    If your printing system can reproduce colours that exceed the RGB(98) colour space, you should process your photos in ProPhoto RGB regardless that neither the display nor the printer can reproduce all of it. At least you will print the colours which exceed ARGB98, which by the way will most likely not be many for most ordinary photos (whatever they are!). But if you use ProPhoto make sure you are also in 16-bit depth.

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    Re: basICColor Input 6 Pro – Requesting Guidance
    Reply #3 on: February 25, 2024 at 2:29 pm

    That distinction between measuring solid colors on the one hand and colour evaluation in context on the other is really valid; however, guidance gleaned from the former CAN help point one to do things that improve one’s impression from the latter – for example making better profiles. So yes, it can be a rabbit hole if one lets the rabbits dig inappropriately, but it doesn’t have to be misused.

    An average dE of 4 for a monitor calibration is not particularly good, especially recalling that an average means there are numbers above and numbers below. My monitor calibrations normally have average values of less than 1, and I know that’s the case for others with whom I’ve collaborated on such exercises. In a broad general sense, the risk of perceived incoherence between display colours and printed colours grows the higher the dEs.

    As for the CxF business, you’d need to check with them what works with their software.

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    Re: basICColor Input 6 Pro – Requesting Guidance
    Reply #4 on: February 25, 2024 at 1:04 am

    Firstly, it would be good to determine whether you need the Pro version. If not you can buy the standard version for 625. If all of these problems remain after having read the manual, I suggest you kindly address all these tech support issues to Chromix or to basICColor directly. It’s been quite a while back that I used this software to make profiles, it worked as indicated and as you may have read in the my article about it. I have not experienced the range of issues you report here, so I am not in position to provide the kind of tech support you appear to need. Sorry.

    Mark D Segal Author: "Scanning Workflows with SilverFast 8, SilverFast HDR, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop". Please check the PhotoPXL Store for availability.