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Dec 11, 2017
09:39 AM
I am studying your last email, and finding helpful pointers to what I should be doing! The web references you quoted, as you say, give great detail of the Photoshop etc applications, but I am finding some useful information there too. You have included a succinct conceptual statement of the process from camera to print for which I am grateful. I do start with a RAW image and I shall try the settings you recommend. Once again, my thanks for the time and trouble you have taken. It seems that I cannot click "Correct Answer" and send a reply as well. I prefer to send my thanks.
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Dec 08, 2017
08:33 AM
Thank you - once again. I hadn’t realised that Elements could not “see” (good expression) the driver adjustments. I have read several manuals on the successive PSEs and I don’t recall ever seeing this fact mentioned. So I proceeded on the basis that the PSE pre-printing screen includes all the adjustments I had made and what I saw was what I would get! Somewhat dumb! I do use most of your colour management recommendations, but I shall explore the differences. Do the RGB profiles have advantages over, say, Adobe Vivid? I thought these profiles referred only to the output to screen or printer. Referring to the Colour Model - am I right in assuming that the Paper Colour profile is Colour Profile B? This means it operates in parallel with the printer driver. It now seems to me that it is more likely to be in Colour Profile A and the printer driver constituting Colour Profile B. I have heard of ‘soft editing’ and I suspect I would have to graduate to Photoshop to get it? I’ve read the Colour Management papers referred to in connection with PSE and other papers found on the internet. But I have not found a paper which gives a reasonably detailed description of the nature of profiles and how they work together. Can you recommend anything?
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Dec 07, 2017
12:07 PM
Thank you again. Yes, the printer options are central. I loaded and edited an image in PSE 11. I then went to Colour management>Colour Controls>Photo Enhance. I selected Sepia and the change showed in the thumbnail. Then back to the PE 11 Print Screen and the image was unchanged - no Sepia.( I assumed that this is what would be printed, I did not actually print the photo). Again, I used the Brightness control in Colour Controls; the result showed in the thumbnail but I did not find it in the PSE 11 Print Screen. I did not actually print the photo from the PSE !! screen. Even if those two changes had been printed, it seems to be a fact that the picture on the PSE 11 Print Screen does not show those changes. So the PSE 11 Print Screen, the last seen before printing, does not represent what is going to happen. Whatever happens at the printing stage, whereas the changes made within PSE 11 are clearly seen on the large screen, the printer driver changes on the thumbnails cannot be as clearly seen - hence my reference to "rough and ready". I was surprised by this behaviour and thought I might have made a mistake! Have I?
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Dec 07, 2017
08:34 AM
Thank you for responding. I am reasonably comfortable with the settings available in PSE 11. What surprised me in relating PSE adjustments to the Colour Management model is the number of adjustments available through the PSE menus which operate through the printer driver where the effects can only be seen on the thumbnail pictures. It seems that the precision of PSE 11 may be upstaged by these, it seems, rough and ready adjustments. And, it seems, these do not appear in the PSE screen showing the picture that one is about to print. At this stage, I wondered whether I had got this right!
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Dec 06, 2017
12:13 PM
Having used Photoshop Elements 11 for quite some time, I thought I could get a better understanding of the process by setting it against the standard Colour Management model: Image file -> colour profile A -> Working Colour Space -> colour profile B -> printer. The outcome has surprised me, and so I would be grateful if others would say whether my understanding is correct: 1. Colour Profile A links the image file to the Working Space. This is a constant relationship, the Profile is built-in and needs no adjustments. 2. Colour Profile B is set by the selection of the paper. 3. The saturation, etc adjustments made in PSE 11 are directly onto the image. Thereafter, other adjustments are made through the PSE 11 Print menus ( eg Advanced Settings(click to launch Printer Preferences) and Colour Controls (uses matching and enhancements provided by the printer driver) operate on the printer driver, except for ICM which uses the Colour Profiles in Windows. 4. Whereas the adjustments made in PSE 11 can be viewed on the screen, those made in the Print screens (eg Colour Model - Colour Controls - Brightness) are viewed on the small thumbnails and changes do not appear in the image displayed in the Print Preview screen. The adjustment ranges for these controls are substantial, -25 to +25, and so, on the face of it, are very significant. So I wonder whether they render fine adjustments made in PSE 11 superfluous? The printer driver is, perhaps, more important than the Colour Profiles.
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Dec 01, 2017
09:54 AM
The colour profiles available on Photoshop Elements 11 do not include one for Satin paper. I wish to try Satin Photo Paper Pearl Premium and I am told by the paper vendor that there is no profile available for my printers. These are Epson Stylus Photo PX810FW and Epson XP-760. Grateful if anyone can advise me on how to get good results on the satin paper.
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Oct 20, 2017
02:05 AM
I enlarged an image in the PSE 11 workspace to carry out an edit. Somehow the workspace enlarged itself so that none of the panels are now visible. I cant get to the bottom of the workspace to try to haul it up! Grateful if anyone can advise me how to return to the normal size!.
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Aug 04, 2017
12:00 PM
To date I have used the Adobe DNG Converter to insert my Nikon RAW images into PSE 11. I have just purchased a Sony A6000 camera. It offers a RAW option but it is not recognised by PSE11 Is there a converter for Sony RAW to PSE 11? Grateful for help!
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Dec 30, 2016
11:41 AM
Thank you MichelBParis for your response. With some effort I have discovered the answer to my question. My version of the Adobe DNG Converter was set to RAW Version 7.1.(The version shown against the D610 in the Adobe listings). As the DNG Converter had worked for me before into PSE11,I thought it might work again if I changed from 7.1 to the earlier version of 6.6. It did! So rather than going to a later version, I've gone to an earlier. Perhaps there is a better theoretical solution, but at least 6.6 works. I'm sorry if anyone has wasted time on my behalf.
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Dec 30, 2016
07:45 AM
Previously I downloaded RAW files from my D5200 to PSE 11 using the Adobe DN Converter. This software does not work when I download RAW files from a D610. Grateful for any advice on how to deal with the D610.
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