X-Rite Passport ColorChecker has been helping me for a while now and I am very pleased with its performance as a color managed workflow tool. I use it indoor or outside shoots and can quickly balance the white value and apply calibrated camera profile to the images. The results are richer and truer colors. So far, nothing new, many readers know that much.
I also use an Epson Perfection V500 Photo scanner to acquire scanned photographs or to directly capture images of objects, like flowers. When I capture an image via the scanner, I am not as sure of the colors as I am when the image comes from my camera. I thought the ColorChecker might come in handy and I was right. Although its use is not as automated, nor is it necessarily sanctioned by X-Rite, as it is when used with a camera, it certainly makes sense to use it in the scanning workflow. [Read more...]
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