mikewof

Hi All, I'm new to the forum, but I've been using Photo for about a year, gradually transitioning over from Photoshop, their subscription-only thing pushed me to move off their system. I'm giving about a another year before I can transition to Photo, but no definite timeline on Illustrator, I'm going to miss that one, but I haven't given Designer much of a chance yet. Anyway, I'm a physicist, but I used to be a graphic designer, I worked at Pastore Depamphillis Rampone back in the 1990s, where Dan Margulis was my boss, the same Dan Margulis who now leads the high-end color correction courses. He taught me to color correct "by the numbers" which back then meant correcting in CMYK, often with the monitor set to black and white, so I could only rely on the numbers, not what I was seeing on the screen. Dan moved on to more advanced workflows with RGB and LAB, I kept in touch, I still consider him one of the best physics instructors I ever had -- even though he taught me color -- he taught me in a scientific way. But through the years, I found that even though Dan's CMYK techniques may not have been ideal for the top 1% of color professionals, it is perfect for 99% of the work I encountered, especially now that cameras/phones usually get a lot closer to better color than they used to. Now it's mostly fixing bad lighting, accentuating color to give a certain look, or just tweaking color to print better ... for this, Dan's original methods are excellent. But now that I'm not a designer anymore, I don't make the salary I used to make. Physicists don't make the kind of money of graphic designers, so I still make graphic design rulers, color charts and font resources through my small company, Galaxy Gauge. So here's my idea, I don't want to break any forum rules, so I'm asking about the etiquette first ... I made a Kickstarter to show online, the simple CMYK color correction I learned so long ago, but I updated with physics-based targeting and control, also some laminated printed tools to help the process. The Kickstarter has received a little bit of interest, but not much so far ... it includes the instruction, color tools, gauges, etc.. I'm just a one-person company, is it okay for me to share the details of the Kickstarter with this community or is that a "buy an ad" kind of thing? Thank you!