ICC Profiles

Over the weekend I was busy with a couple of projects. First I needed to head over to High Hand Nursery and take photos of the High Hand complex for their newsletter. I almost got there too late, as it was pretty bright by 10 a.m. But I think I managed to capture a few that hopefully will work out. That project pretty much took up half my day. I came home and started working on my second project of printing out some of my digital European photographic images.

It was basically a 'study in ICC profiles' for me. (FYI: Definition of ICC - International Color Consortium profile. An ISO-approved color management standard for specifying the attributes of imaging devices such as scanners, digital cameras, monitors and printers so that the color of an image remains true from source to destination. A profile can be embedded within the image itself.) Come to find out I didn't realize that I had purchased the wrong Ilford Galerie inkjet paper. It wasn't working in my Epson and neither did it fare well in my HP printer. I'm like, 'what the heck?' I kind of thought the box was looking a little different, but you never can tell, companies continually change their product names and styles of boxes (Epson's really good at that). I accidentally bought the Ilford 'Classic Pearl Paper', when I should have been buying the 'Smooth Pearl'. You know, getting older is a real challenge these days! I was so mad because I had purchased the box of 100 Sheets!! I like the results you normally get from the Pearl and like using it for my cards. I opened the box and used several sheets trying to figure out what was wrong! So now I can't return it! Dangit!

Once I figured out where I went wrong, I put the Ilford paper away, and continued with the Epson Ultra Premium Glossy. I spent Sunday afternoon printing out more color digital photos from Italy, as well as making some new cards, which I haven't done for a while. This is a new image from the island of Burano. Just loved all the colors in that small town.