PS:    The white space should be eliminated. ... View more

Sure! And thank you for the warm welcome.   My goal is to get all of the flags, which I have selected (in the Channels window), and put them on the image that is one of the layers, with all of the negative space [off white color].   How should I go about doing that?   Thanks,   Sand Patch ... View more

All of that having said, is there anything else I can do, besides eventually replacing my monitor, to improve the output's results?   Sand Patch ... View more

To answer your first question, I always click "OK," unless otherwise. To assign a profile, should I navigate to Edit > Assign Profile or Convert to Profile? If neither, where should I go? In the Assign Profile window, the setting has been set to "Don't Color Manage this Document". Obviously, that is consistant with what my Status Bar has been telling me. If that is indeed the correct window, should I revise it to the Working RGB: sRGB... setting, which does not have any other choices nor does it seem to change the appearance of the image in anyway. Or, should I check the "Profile" setting, with the dropdown menu sat at the sRGB... setting? The Profile one include a wide array of Epson profiles.   To give you an idea of idea of how I use my color-critical monitor I primarily use it for Illustrator vector files and use it for photography as a second resort. I got it about six years ago, and overall have been incredibly happy with it, when it comes to viewing images on display vs. the printouts, using my Epson 3880 printer. In terms of calibrating, I try to do that every two weeks. I have read that it is very common that people recycle their color-critical monitors every 2-3 years, but I have never found any need to do so myself. Once I asked an expert photographer, who has had two of them for as long as I have had mine, and what his take was on the scenario. His response was that he still thrilled with his original monitors. So I'm not quite sure about what to think of the idea of the need to replace them so often.   I brought this issue to you because of the unusual with my trying to print such a dark print, not having been as high quality as my other prints (taking into account that they had been quite a bit light in tone overall). Also, I have read that the Epson 3880 has a tendency of making prints noticably darker prints by other artists, despite the fact that it is a nine-color printer with four shades of black ink is contains.   Sand Patch ... View more

I thank all of you for taking the effort in helping me with my monitor/printer issue. This is hugely informative to me. Please bare with me and my total illiteracy on the aspects of color management.   Okay, let me start trying to get myself out of this mess.   First, let me start of on C.pfaffenbichler's recommendation. When I made the Status Bar Document Profile, it changed the text to say, "Untagged RGB (8bpc).   Then I changed the Working Space to Adobe1998, however after I had closed the Color Setting window and opened it up again the RGB had defaulted to sRGB IEC61966-2.1. Is that to be expected?    Also, will I end-up needing to go into my SpectraViewII software for any reason?   Sand Patch                 ... View more

Thank you for responding.   First, I'm a little bit confused on how you say I save the jpeg file without embedding the profile. Are you referring to the screenshots, or my actual file?   Second, I seemed to be using the Adobe RGB 1998 setting.   And third, here is a screenshot of the current color settings. It looks like the RGB was set to the color critical monitor I'm using. ... View more

Ahh, got it, Photoshop or InDesign.   Thanks,   Sand Patch ... View more

Thank you! That's pretty much what I thought.   Sand Patch ... View more

Thanks you much! I can't tell you how much easier it is to work with Photoshop now.   Sand Patch ... View more

PS When I say, "tracing over multiple areas," I am creating MULTIPLE PATHS. ... View more

For what you are trying to achieve, I would strongly recommend that you look into an online website, called Vector Magic (www.vectormagic.com), a non-Adobe app. It is an application that transforms jpeg images into vector-formatted illustrations, including Illustrator CC. It can be either a monthly-subscription for $9.95 per month or you can obtain a licence for $295.00, that can work for two machines.   From experience, I have found that it works especially well with heavy amount of high-contrasts. The other observation I would offer is that, if you choose to save your file as an .AI configuration, when opened in Illustrator, the colors of the paths can many times be lesser in saturation than other file formats. To compensate for that, you can take the original file, and upload it in Photoshop, where you can up the saturation, prior to when you put it into Vector Magic.   Sand Patch ... View more

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Thanks so much!   Sand Patch ... View more

It's a little bit hard to visually explain because it would be require me to have two cursers at once, to fully illustrate. But it's clearly an update because when I opened the application, it had a different default illustration while it was booting and also that I received a "thumbs up" from another community member.   Anyway, if you look at the selected path, it includes two tiny, unknown red/white circles within it. The "jumpyness" part of it is almost like the Brush Tool in Photoshop, where you see the brush throughout the time but the paint itself is delated by a second, while it follows the tool. In this case, you would have the Pen tool, etc. instead of the Brush and the tiny "X" intermittedly following the Pen, instead of the paint. ... View more

Thanks a lot!   I will definately incorporate this technique into my artistic process.   Sand Patch ... View more

So, do I need to completely dismiss what my camera is showing me, and abide what I anticipate Photoshop's version is going to look like, when I take the photos?   Sand Patch   ... View more