PhotoPurify.com

How does it work?

 

With any specific output device, such as a printer and one specific kind of printing paper, run our plugin, PhotoPurifyTrain, and take 27 measurements using a color picker. There is no hardware required, just eyeball it. You only do this once for this printer and kind of paper. 

Every time you want to print to this printer and paper, use the other plugin, PhotoPurifyApply, to change your image temporarily so that it prints the way it looked on the screen.

Here is the procedure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 3: Print

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Training: you only do this once

 

Step 1: print the image that comes with the plugin.  It is named plugin.psd and is in your downloaded zip file.

Step 2: invoke the training filter

Step 3: for each patch, put the print next to the color picker and pick its color.  Give the profile a name and save. Note: compare the print, not the Photoshop image, to the color picker.  You don’t have to be too accurate because you will have a chance to tune your profile later.

Printing

 

Step 1: invoke the Application filter

Step 2: select a profile you previously created

Step 3: print

Tuning your profile

 

We recommend that you tune your profile as follows.

 

Step 1: Open plugin.psd in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.

Step 2: Apply the filter to plugin.psd using the PhotoPurifyApply plugin.

Step 3: Print the resulting plugin.psd

Step 4: Repeat the Training sequence with this print, with the same profile selected and with the Tune Existing Profile checkbox checked in the dialog box, as below

 

 

You can perform this sequence as many times as you like (note that you will have to start the sequence from scratch, by opening a new copy of plugin.psd, when you repeat).  You will know that your profile is good when you will not need to change any colors in the color picker in the Training sequence.