[argyllcms] Re: Reproducing watercolor on watercolor paper?

From: "Ben Goren" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Now...I don't know what to do to get a good print of the art on the
watercolor paper. I've done two experiments with gamut-mapped device  link
profiles. The first used perceptual intent and the second  absolute
colorimetric. The perceptual looks close, but the contrast is  low, it's a
bit undersaturated, and the printer still lays down a lot  of ink on the
unpainted parts of the page. Absolute colorimetric  pretty much takes care
of the contrast and saturation...but it lays  down buckets of ink on the
unpainted areas.


Try RelCol - this will have the saturation and contrast of AbsCol, with no
ink in the pure white areas.
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Um...help? I'm running out of paper to experiment with for test  prints,
so I'm hoping for some guidance of what to try next....


I use thin test strips - an inch in height.  Copy and paste areas of
important color from the original image to this strip, then trim off the
test strip after each print, and you can get 9 or 10 strips per letter sized
sheet.

Are you setting up a profile that will work for many paintings, in a large
scale process, or is this for a relatively small number of images?  If the
latter, I would favor a less profile-centric approach, optimized for each
painting.  Use curves to get the important colors for each image as close as
possible, using the spectro to compare them with the original colors, and
then print away.

Mike Russell  - www.curvemeister.com

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