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CHROMIX ColorThink - Basic or Pro?
« on: March 03, 2011, 02:23:35 pm »

I have been searching for a program that can show me the gamut of an image compared to the gamuts of my monitor and  printer/paper combination. I am figuring this will help me better determine how an image will print.

I make my own inkjet prints on a HP Z3200ps. I am considering making books on Blurb.

I am looking at ColorThink Basic, but should I go for the Pro edition?



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Re: CHROMIX ColorThink - Basic or Pro?
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2011, 02:25:59 pm »

If the budget permits, go Pro. There's so much more useful functionality available.
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Re: CHROMIX ColorThink - Basic or Pro?
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2011, 02:29:34 pm »

Or you go with Gamutvision. I have both and use the Gamutvision more often.

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Re: CHROMIX ColorThink - Basic or Pro?
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2011, 01:59:07 pm »

If you are a fairly involved photographer and printer, you could benefit from the Worksheet module that the Pro version has that the 2.3 version does not.  The Worksheet lets you lay out your entire workflow and see your image change from profile to profile.  If you do your own prints, and do your own profiles - it really helps to have a good diagnostic program like this to troubleshoot when problems arise.  (Sometimes you don't realize you need it until your color's off and you can't figure out why.) The 3D grapher also looks nicer and has more options in the Pro version compared to the basic.  You can take a look through the manual to get an idea of what it does.

That being said, the basic (version 2.3) does a great job of showing monitor & printer gamuts along with your image gamuts.  You can also see how different rendering intents affect the image pixels.  It will also draw directional lines showing the color moving from one color space to the one represented by your profile and rendering intent. 

In my decidedly biased opinion the grapher in both versions is more accurate than anything else on the market, since Lab space is 255 wide by 100 tall: (Read Color Management Myth #26)
And if you're on Windows we have a brand new version that is updated for Windows 7
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Re: CHROMIX ColorThink - Basic or Pro?
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2011, 12:13:29 am »

Thanks for your suggestions. I will download and try both Gamutvision and Cromix. As I expected, the pro version seems the way to go if I decide for CROMIX. Actually, only the basic version seems ready for win7, but I understand from your forums that the pro is expected to be out of beta shortly.

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Re: CHROMIX ColorThink - Basic or Pro?
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2011, 03:06:40 pm »

The latest beta of ColorThink Pro works fine in Windows 7 also.  That would be the thing to try.  Download and install the original ColorThink 3.0 version first because that installs the support folders.  Then download the .exe for the beta version, and it should run fine in demo mode.
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Re: CHROMIX ColorThink - Basic or Pro?
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2011, 12:43:30 pm »

To give you an idea of the useful functionality in ColorThink Pro, check out this tutorial:

http://digitaldog.net/files/How_to_compare_deltaE_of_ColorLists.pdf
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