I have looked at those rectangles. They are in the yellow at the top. They have Red crosses which I read to be overexposure.

I had about 77 of them after the last scan.

However they are not sequential. I get the odd cross and then a few without crosses. I assume this is more a signal that the test print is not quite right rather then a matter of total over-exposure - which would presumably result in a red cross everywhere.

I let PP make a profile and the result said something like 24-255 0-255 0-255.

The print from the profile is acceptable. If I did not know the real colour of the jumper being worn by that lady I would have been happy with it. Tinker time is due.

Tony

"When you open the scanned image in PP and it asks if it is a 48bit tiff with linear gamma, are you answering 'Yes'?"

Should I say No then?

EDIT. Reading you again I guess I answer Yes.

Tony

Terry,

This is the error report from the printer target. You might be able to see the randon red crosses on the top line of the chart.



This is the profile info when created.



The profile prints fine but I am still struggling to get that jumper the right colour. I'll probably be back for more tuition.

Tony

Thanks Terry,

My matte profile needed more saturation and less brightness.

I seem to find the Tweaking Wizard harder to control than the RGB sliders. Also I find it hard to bring back to a default - by that I mean that after saving an adjustment when I go back into the Tweaker the left and right display boxes are different colours.



The small right hand panel is quite different to the big one and what I did was to Apply the tweaker. It closed and when I called it up again it looked as above.

The route I am following is to try to get the colour right (in the case of the lady in the test file it is a matter of adding more red or more magenta to her sweater). Once I have got the colour similar I then work on the saturation and brightness. I feel more in control than using the Tweaker.

Tony

"Don't you mean reducing to match the print?"

Yes, I do.

I think there is a bug in the Tweaker. If, before you re-use the Tweaker, you use the yellow arrow on the big screen and say you want to Go Back again and start from scratch the Tweaker comes back with the left and right hand panels looking different (as in my screen shot). Maybe this is intended, but I can't see why.



Where the Tweaker is a help is in showing that to remove magenta you drop green and add red and blue. Working with R G and B is intuitive. Yellow Cyan and Magenta less so.