ColorMunki Photo is the innovative way to bring your photos from screen to print with color perfection. Designed for wedding, social, or portrait photographers, this color control solution delivers technological features for display, projector, and RGB/CMYK printer profiling. You'll now be able to send your images to your clients, confident that they will be viewed in a calibrated environment, using the DigitalPouch communication tool. All this delivered in an all-in-one integrated solution with a streamlined interface, making the most of your digital workflow. All-in-One spectrophotometer means no separate devices needed to profile your displays and printers. ColorMunki lets you swing perfectly from screen to print with quick, easy, and accurate display-to-print match. Software guides you through whichever profiling function you desire. Select 'Match My Printer To My Display' and you'll be completely guided through the profiling process for both your display and your printer. ColorMunki can calibrate multiple displays with ease and provides before and after visualization, as well as calibration reminder prompts. ColorMunki's superfast scanning can rapidly measure test charts in less than one minute. With AppSet, ColorMunki talks with your photo and des applications to automate printer profile settings. ColorMunki automatically extracts the top colors, or you can go directly into your image and add any color to your palette. With ColorMunki's PrintSafe checking capabilities, you'll be able to preview your color palettes under different lighting sources or printing processes before you go to production.Customer Review: Finally! I have accurate prints!
I've been struggling with color profiles for years now, but I haven't been able to find a printer profiler for under two grand. Instead I've been using a monitor profiler (Eye-One) but still had to fiddle with multiple prints to get the color I wanted. This was annoying so I limited my printing to the occasional special print. With Colormunki, my prints now accuratly match my screen - what a concept! I did have to debate with myself whether to take an expensive chance on this, but I am so happy I did. The process could hardly have been easier, though it did take longer than I thought. The initial setup (downloading the software and installing) took about a half hour, and the printer profiling took about the same since you have to wait for the prints to dry. The monitor profiling was pretty quick. Ever since then - perfect color matching. I've profiled two different papers I use (Ilford Gallerie and HP Premium Plus Soft Gloss) and prints on both papers look fantastic. I highly recommend the Colormunki!
Customer Review: Not for me
Purchased it because of excellent reviews - also anxious to do my own printer profiles. However, it doesn't handle CRT monitors and that wasn't made clear prior to purchase. I had to send it back. I use both a CRT and an LCD and of the two the CRT has the best color gamut.
When I was in the publishing world, one of the drawbacks was that we were always working seasons ahead of ourselves, sometimes years ahead. The fact that it was frosty outside bore no relation to the summery feel that we had to give to the current project. And, that is how a freelance has to work if he or she is aiming to sell to magazines. The lucky ones will be able to head off to sunny climes to make their summery images to offer to publications in our winter but we lesser mortals have to make our images and then wait about six to eight months before we can submit them to our chosen markets.
The exception may be summer holidays type shots as many magazines devote a fair proportion of their winter issues to summer holidays.
By high summer you should have already submitted your autumn selections and be thinking of images that say 'winter'. Those pictures of frost and snow that you took last year should be pulled from your files ready for submission.
Perseverance and confidence are two of the attributes that freelances need but there is another that we all need in abundance if we are to survive this precarious existence that is freelancing. And that is enthusiasm.
It was Ralph Waldo Emerson, the nineteenth century American author, poet and philosopher who said, "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm" and that is a quote that is stuck to my office wall. When rejection after rejection of what we consider our best work is landing with a plop on the mat day after day, the temptation to quit can rise and threaten to overwhelm us but, if we are truly enthusiastic about being a freelance, we will lift our drooping heads and start preparing the next submission. That is how a freelance succeeds.
Winston Churchill put it rather well when he said, "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." And, of all people, he should have known.
David Bigwood is an Australian based writer and photographer who sells his words and pictures regularly. He was a columnist for F2 Freelance + Digital magazine for three years. His website is http://www.bigwoodpublishing.com where you will find some of his published articles.
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