Digital Light & Color

As an amateur nature photographer I don't see the need to invest in a colorchecker, but occasionally it can be usefull to have more accurate colors. So I was thinking; is it possible to print a usable colorchecker with a good inkjet printer and a spectrometer? I checked the colors of the Macbeth cha...

Is using relative colorimetric rendering intent a requirement when using a matrix based profile ? I have not found any info about this. As far as I understand it (and I am not an expert) al rendering intents other than relative colorimetric are defined by look up tables inside the target profile. I...

The gamut of my printer is close to sRGB (a bit more greens and a lot less dark and saturated colors, I checked the profile in a 3D viewer) I print with a 'maintain full gamut' rendering intent. So I guess my settings should be: printer proofing intent: 'maintain full gamut' monitor proofing intent:...

I am not quite sure how to set the different proofing rendering intents in the color management options. My setup: - LCD monitor calibrated and profiled with a HueyPro (profile is very close to sRGB colorspace) - custom printer profiles created with a Spyder3Print - images are stored in ProPhoto col...