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Re: Help making BW profiles

2009-06-30 by Keith R.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "scanzzz" <dougfisher@...> wrote:
>
> > - Open QTR\eye-one\Step-51-gray.tif into Photoshop, telling Photoshop
> > "don't color manage"
> >
> > - Print it onto the paper for which you are making the profile
> >
> > - In the Photoshop print dialog box, select "no color management"
> 
> Just a quick question for confirmation since I too was experimenting with this last night.  "Select "no color management" is not possible for me because the no color management option is grayed out for me in CS4 until I convert the 51 patch file to RGB.  Is this a step that has been left out or am I forgetting something?
> 
> Thanks,
> Doug
From all that I have read to date on this, the ICC profile is a color managment thing, so when you put a profile in, the driver is expecting an RGB file, so changing it to RGB will highlight "NCM" so you can select it.

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