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Re: Paper white square measurement

2008-11-17 by John Arnold

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, Cdtobie <CDTobie@...> wrote:
>
> It would potentially show in fleshtones.  But I would not assume that  
> it's even non-neutral: often when people show me a gray ramp and tell  
> me it has a cast, measuring it with the spectro shows it to actually  
> be neutral.  Just not the neutral they want. <G>

I'll buy that. Actually the neutrals on the test print do look right. But I haven't measured with 
a spectro. I'll print a gray ramp and confirm that. So if the neutrals check out as neutral, then 
what else could be warming up the fleshtones and what would be the best way to adjust for 
that, especially if the rest of the print and the other colors look right? Would that be an area 
where the Expert target would come in handy by maybe providing more squares to sample? I 
know our brains are a lot more sensitive to fleshtones than a lot of other colors where we 
don't have such an engrained reference. I was thinking that maybe using the larger target 
might help.  What would you suggest?

John

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