Neil Barstow Downloads

Further down the page you'll find the printer profiling package downloads, just below this paragraph are a couple of useful testimages for printer testing and profile verification.

You should download and print this image using your printer profile, or your normal workflow, if you'd like to check how your printer is performing by comparison to your profiled monitor [as long as it is accurate].
Also if we have generated a printer profile for you, and you want us to tweak the profile, you need to print out this image through the profile, and send it to Neil Barstow at Colourmanagement.net. The image is optimised, and we know how it should look, so we can judge your printout.

Please remember that Pixl and Neil Barstow Consulting / Colourmanagement.net retain full copyright on this image. It must not be used commercially in full, or in part, without prior permission in writing.

ColourSolutions basICColor Display SW
[use with various devices: basICColor Squid, eyeOne Monitor (and soon with the new eyeOne Display), Sequel Chroma 4 USB, Specrocam, Spectrolino]

go here to download a basICColor Display demo
(demo works for 14 days, click here to email us about how to get an unlock code to allow continued use).

Excellent working spaces for editing or storing RGB data from scanned images.
Also, just available, the new DCam spaces and variants, for editing and storing digital captures.

The free “EktaSpace” and new big sister Chrome Space 100, J. Holmes (replacing EktaChromeSpace,J.Holmes) were especially designed, by Californian colour / imaging guru and fine art landscape photographer Joseph Holmes, (click on “profiles”) to barely enclose all the image data from a saturated Ektachrome film. The working spaces work very well with other transparency films and are also excellent for those who work on colour negative. The use of the Chrome Space 100, J. Holmes space nicely avoids the indiscriminate compression of tonal detail resulting from the crushing transformation in the high gamut colour areas of saturated originals which is inevitable when translating saturated image data from scanner space to the smaller working spaces (e.g.. Adobe RGB).
The free download here comes complete with a very interesting Read Me which eloquently explains the reasoning behind Joe's thinking. Every photographer should read this paper. It's complex but very worthwhile.

Joe also makes available sets of "saturation adjusted, Chroma Variant" versions of his working spaces (and now, also for Adobe RGB and ProPhoto RGB) - these take advantage of the concept of assigning a "false" profile to an image - in this case to elegantly adjust saturation - all the while observing the changes on screen. This "Assign False Profile" procedure allows a very elegant adjustment to saturation of an image without altering luminance (unlike saturation adjustments in Adobe Photoshop). Note, also, that this invokes no concurrent Photoshop recalculation of original image "numbers" - the adjustment to saturation is not actually made until the data is transformed on output. The image numbers stay the same.
It really is worth buying Joe's extra adjusted spaces and getting your head around how they can be used. click here for Joseph’s website to get details and find out how to buy the Working Spaces etc.