Color correction help!!!

I just purchased a gretag \"colorchecker\" chart in order to help with my color correcting. I am using a Canon 10D under studio flash to take my raw images. These images are taken using the custom white balance; which I perform at the beginning of each session. When I pull the raw images into C1 LE all of the colors look too \"hot\" or saturated. So I look at the image of the gretag chart and the RGB numbers don't match what they are supposed to from the chart. At this point I am confused... If I turn off the \"color management\" button the colors are much closer to what I would expect but still not quite right. Is there a way to match the colors on the color chart to the expected RGB values? Am I simply missing the \"big picture\" as it were? Do I not care about matching the color chart? Please help .. I suppose these may be very stupid questions to a power user/digital pro.

Ulf Liljegren

6. Juli 2005 14:54

It might be that you are using the incorrect camera profile.
In reallity if you are out in this kind of colour matching then you should go for a upgrade to Capture One Pro and use the Colour Editor to create the \"perfect\" camera profile for your workflow.

bernardtan

31. Oktober 2005 21:50

[quote="UlfLiljegren" wrote:
It might be that you are using the incorrect camera profile.
In reallity if you are out in this kind of colour matching then you should go for a upgrade to Capture One Pro and use the Colour Editor to create the "perfect" camera profile for your workflow.

So do we still need to use the colorchecker chart for that or just do it by the eye with the color editor? How come the free profiles that come with the software don't match the exact color as it is supposed to be- i thought that profiles are to save you from getting wrong colors but all the same we get odd colors w/c are all wrong & overly saturated & intense.

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