Feb 20, 2011, 06:28
I have recently started offering my photos to galleries for sale and having something unique would help. At the same time, for a long time, I was frustrated by color gamut of papers being too small to capture bright and vivid colors I sometimes wish to show. For a very long time, I was frustrated that after very careful color management and trying to get color and brightness just so, my finished photos are placed in dim corners or are illuminated by artificial light with wrong temperature, completely changing (degrading the image quality) the photo I created. The solution to all that is creating backlight image.
LED lightboxes can be thin and no more expensive than a frame and signage (transparent film with a diffusion layer backing) material is readily available. As I see it, the biggest problem is to color manage this system. ICC profiles would have to be created (I think) for every lightbox product depending on the lightbox brightness and the temperature of the light emitted and of course the exact color and absorptive properties of the signage material. I never created an ICC profile and always used downloaded profiles provided by paper manufacturers. Can you help me? Advice, links to equipment/procedures etc. - anything would help. Thanks
Pavel
LED lightboxes can be thin and no more expensive than a frame and signage (transparent film with a diffusion layer backing) material is readily available. As I see it, the biggest problem is to color manage this system. ICC profiles would have to be created (I think) for every lightbox product depending on the lightbox brightness and the temperature of the light emitted and of course the exact color and absorptive properties of the signage material. I never created an ICC profile and always used downloaded profiles provided by paper manufacturers. Can you help me? Advice, links to equipment/procedures etc. - anything would help. Thanks
Pavel