snowfiend131
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- Nov 15, 2007
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Does anyone have any personal experience using the Macbeth color checker? Did it improve your photo's default colors in Lightroom?
I would like to switch to shooting raw all the time, but I simply don't like Lightroom's dull and sometimes inaccurate representation of colors. I happen to like the color of the jpegs from my Canon 2'd (please no raw vs. jpeg debate), and would like to create a preset or calibration that I can apply to my raw files to mimic the color of the jpegs. I have tried to manually adjust the calibration sliders to do this, but have accomplished nothing and am frustrated. I have read mixed results on the use of a Macbeth color checker and the various automatic scripts that help the calibration process. What are your experiences? I don't particularly want to drop $6' on a piece of precision printed cardboard that may not solve my problem.
Additionally, would anyone be willing to rent me their color checker card? I could paypal you full retail price, you send it to me, I send it back, you refund me all but a $1' rental fee....
I would like to switch to shooting raw all the time, but I simply don't like Lightroom's dull and sometimes inaccurate representation of colors. I happen to like the color of the jpegs from my Canon 2'd (please no raw vs. jpeg debate), and would like to create a preset or calibration that I can apply to my raw files to mimic the color of the jpegs. I have tried to manually adjust the calibration sliders to do this, but have accomplished nothing and am frustrated. I have read mixed results on the use of a Macbeth color checker and the various automatic scripts that help the calibration process. What are your experiences? I don't particularly want to drop $6' on a piece of precision printed cardboard that may not solve my problem.
Additionally, would anyone be willing to rent me their color checker card? I could paypal you full retail price, you send it to me, I send it back, you refund me all but a $1' rental fee....