This weekend was the second and final weekend of my fine art digital printmaking course. This segement was taught by Michael Creedon (an instructor at the San Francisco Art Institute). Here are a few of the things that I learned.

• You must calibrate your monitor and for the paper color that you use. I like the watercolor papers that are brighter white. Therefore, I needed my monitor calibrated for 6500K. If I use Concorde Rag, than I would use 5000K.
• I had calibrated my monitor but somewhere along the line, the monitor defaulted back to factory default!
• From my experience in the class, the Gretag Macbeth Eye One did a better job than Colorvision Spyder 2. It was really noticeable.
• Laptops are the worst for doing color management. Of course, I mainly use my laptop, and it calibrated very poorly. The blue channel was not close to linear (meaning really bac for color management work). It could only reach the 1.7 gamma instead of 2.2 as targeted. Again, not good. After calibration, I could see a noticeable difference in my images.