OS X printing with different printing setups using Presets.

One feature that's very cool for printing is the ability to have multiple paper/printer combinations stored inside presets. There is only one trick to it though, which people can miss.
Okay. Lets start by picking a template we want to modify. I've chosen Fine Art Mat for this (should that be Matte?). I've modified and added my Identity Plate.

Next I choose my Printer Profile. I click on 'Managed by Printer' and select Other.. from the drop down menu. This allows me to select a profile to add to the list. I then click Printer and select my Epson 1290 from the list and setup the photo settings recommended by Ilford for the Smooth Pearl I want to print with.



Normally with a profile you would turn Colour Management off, but Ilford recommend a particular colour setting so I've set that. Here's the trick. Once all this is set up I hit Save. This saves to the Standard print setting. This is the key step.

Now that this is done I save the Preset.

I've also done this for another printer: The Canon CP220 6X4 printer. This has no profile control and no colour control but I've still saved it as standard. I've then modified the Fine Art Matt again for this Printer. Finally I've saved a new Preset CP220 FAM.
If you have followed this, you can see that there is a different printer in the capture from each preset. If I switch between them the print settings also change to reflect what I set as Standard for that preset.

Cleanup.

I've given the blog template a bit of an early Spring clean and used the newer functions of Blogger to add labels to the posts to help navigate.
Update: Randy in comments sees a brownish red against black for the titles. I've the content section set for a dark read titles against grey. I took the colours from the Monochromatic custom colours in Kuler. It all looks fine to me on Safari, Firefox and Opera. It may be possible that Randy is seeing a cached version of the site. Is anyone else seeing this? Here's what I'm seeing:

Update #2 As my intention was to have the titles mirror the word Blog in the Site Logo, I decided that rather than darken the text I'd go back and darken the content area instead. The red text was unnerving to me against the grey. I like the blog red (Cayenne) and am happy to use John's suggested rendering. Hopefully it looks okay against the dark grey (rather than the lighter grey) now. Vote in the comments below :)

Podcast 24: Mark Hambug, Zalman Stern and Thomas Knoll

It has been a little remiss of me not to mention Podcast 24. It's the first Developer podcast in ages and contains a wealth of information on ACR 4 and future features for Lightroom. It's very educational and available at George Jardines iDisk or by searching for Lightroom in iTunes.

Photoshop CS3 Public beta released.

Loads of information over at Photoshop News, along with tutorials and a link to Martin Evenings CS3 book. There is a free download of the first chapter. This does apply to Lightroom in a big way because Camera RAW 4.0 Beta is included and contains features found in Lightrooms Develop Module, including Fill Light, Recovery and Vibrance. Hopefully this will bring XMP compatibility between the 2 programs.
Update Martin Evening has confirmed that his beta (later than 4.1) is compatible with ACR4 and CS3. Tom Hogarty has also indicated that there in still no proper compatibility with B4.1 though.

Histogram

A quick video on using the histogram in beta 4.1 to adjust your images and see clipping quickly and easily in Lightroom.

Individual Text

A lot of people are interested in having different text showing up on each image in their slideshow or web gallery. Here's another short tutorial video on how to do this:

Podcast 23: Richard Benson and Jay Maisel

New podcast up on George Jardines iDisk:

Shownotes:

Title: “Adobe Lightroom Podcast #23: Richard Benson and Jay Maisel”

“My background in relation to photography is to think about taking pictures apart, and assembling pictures in multiple steps or multiple layers, and that's the kind of thinking I've applied to this.” - Richard Benson

“The thing that's important is that the picture shows me where the picture can go as I'm making it. That's what's interesting.” - Richard Benson

This podcast was recorded on Monday October 30th 2006, at the Richard Benson's home in Newport, Rhode Island. Adobe Pro Photography Evangelist George Jardine speaks with Richard Benson and Jay Maisel about Richard’s latest work with inkjet printers.

This “video” podcast includes photos taken by Richard, as well as photos documenting the occasion taken by both myself and by Thomas Palmer. It can be viewed by downloading it directly into iTunes (if you are accessing it by subscribing via the Music Store), or by copying it into iTunes on either a Mac or a PC (if you've downloaded it from my iDisk). Once copied into iTunes, it can be transferred to a Video iPod, and viewed that way as well. When viewing it on an iPod, be sure to access the video from the Video menu (then “Movies” or “Video Podcasts”.... depending upon how you downloaded it), and NOT from the Music menu. If you access it from the Music menu, you will not see the photographs.

Finally, it’s likely that only the audio track will be heard on devices other than Apple iPods, and the photographs will not be seen.

The views and opinions of the participants in this podcast are their own, and do not reflect or represent those of Adobe Systems.

Photographs by Richard Benson, George Jardine and Thomas Palmer.

Photograph of George courtesy of, and © Jeff Schewe.

Duration: 50:07