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		<title>Free Monitor Color Calibration Event For Graphics Geeks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>preston.lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 we&#8217;re hosting a free event at OpenRain HQ with Refocus Phoenix to get your computer monitor rendering colors correctly. If you&#8217;re a web designer, photographer or other graphics professional that is not using a custom color profile, this is a must-do process. I mean it. You owe it to your clients. We [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://blog.openrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/color_dialog.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-32 alignright" title="color_dialog" src="http://blog.openrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/color_dialog.png" alt="" width="173" height="300" /></a>On Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 we&#8217;re hosting a <em>free</em> event at <a href="http://www.openrain.com/about/office">OpenRain HQ</a> with <a href="http://www.refocusphoenix.com/">Refocus Phoenix</a> to get your computer monitor rendering colors correctly. If you&#8217;re a web designer, photographer or other graphics professional that is not using a custom color profile, this is<em> a must-do process</em>. I mean it. You owe it to your clients. We ran a tiny experiment to see if people found <a href="http://www.prestonlee.com/color-profiles">our internal profiles</a> valuable and the feedback has been tremendously positive, so it&#8217;s time to take it up a notch. The process is..</p>
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<li><strong>Bring in your monitor.</strong> Laptops and personal machines are more than welcome, too, but you&#8217;ll need to install the software component of the calibration tool. (I doubt it&#8217;ll run on Linux, sorry.)</li>
<li><strong>We strap on a hardware colorimeter and run some software.</strong> (Takes ~20 minutes, depending on the tweakability of your monitor.)</li>
<li><strong>An </strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_profile"><strong>.icc color profile</strong></a><strong> is generated</strong> with which you keep, use and immediately benefit. OpenRain uses and recommends OS X for graphics work, in which we have had no issues with custom .icc files.</li>
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<p>There&#8217;s no substitute for having a profile created for <em>your</em> specific monitor, and it&#8217;s happening here for <em>free</em> in August!</p>
<p>To design out any issues with unattended hardware, we&#8217;ll provide pizza, soda and water so you can stay close to your beloved monitor at all times.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.openrain.com/about/office">OpenRain HQ</a><br />
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008<br />
6:30 &#8211; 8:30ish<br />
Food will be hot at 6:30.</p>
<p>Please post any questions to this thread and/or the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/refocusphoenix">Refocus Google Group</a>.</p>
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		<title>Open House In Pictures</title>
		<link>http://blog.openrain.com/2008/07/20/open-house-in-pictures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>preston.lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow.
I don&#8217;t think the open house could have gone better. Major thanks to everyone that came out to show support, and extra-special props to Gracie (OpenRain Office Manager) for handling the catering arrangements and running it so smoothly. We had a perfect amount of food and drink and saw plenty of smiling faces. In fact, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://blog.openrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/_mg_1562.png"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-25" title="_mg_1562" src="http://blog.openrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/_mg_1562.png" alt="" width="300" height="187" /></a>Wow</strong>.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think the open house could have gone better. Major thanks to everyone that came out to show support, and <em>extra</em>-special props to Gracie (OpenRain Office Manager) for handling the catering arrangements and running it so smoothly. We had a perfect amount of food and drink and saw plenty of smiling faces. In fact, we had so much fun that we&#8217;ve already decided to do it again next year!</p>
<p>Sweet <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/86807134@N00/sets/72157606267735556/show/">flickr slideshow</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/86807134@N00/sets/72157606267735556/">thumbnails</a>. </p>
<p>For those that couldn&#8217;t make it because you were being held hostage and/or having a baby&#8211;the only two possible reasons for missing it&#8211;you&#8217;re still welcome to drop by, and we&#8217;ll have more announcements out over the next couple weeks (via this blog, of course) on more sponsored summer events!</p>
<p>- Preston</p>
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