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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
Description
PM5 PhotoStudio Pro lets you create and edit color profiles for devices such as monitors,
digital cameras, and printers, including hexachrome devices. It has been developed with
the studio photographer in mind, particularly commercial photographers who need
color fidelity throughout the workflow. Its specific modules are:
■ Digital Camera (ICC profiling)
■ Monitor (ICC profiling for both CRT and LCD displays)
■ MultiColor Output (ICC profiles for RGB, CMYK, hexachrome, and CMYK +
red/green output devices)
■ Editor (edit lightness, contrast, saturation, white point, or gradation curves)
■ ColorPicker (convert spot colors to process color)
■ MeasureTool (data collection and profile computation)
■ DeviceLink (create ICC compatible device linking workflows for RGB and CMYK
color spaces, plus direct linking between devices)
■ i1 Process Control Bundle (includes devices for measurement of control strips like
the Fogra Media step wedge)
Other PM5 products are available for graphics arts professionals. PM5 Publish optimizes
results from digital or traditional printing systems and PM5 Publish Plus expands
the gamut of printers to CMYK+N based multicolor workflows.
Comments
It is usually best to buy this type of software as part of a bundle, in this case with the
i1Pro spectrophotometer. When scanning becomes tedious, you can add automation
any time with the i1iO chart reader that reads 500 patches per minute, or the i1iSis
automatic reader, which can scan 2,500 patches printed on a single A3 page. PM5 is an
industry standard that gives the kind of accuracy and consistency you would expect. It
gets five stars (out of five) from c|net and other publications.
Version: PM5 PhotoStudio Pro (2008)
OS: Windows 2000, XP, and Vista; Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher
RAM: 128MB
Supported file formats: N/A
Price level: Approx. $2,500
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