Of course, I assume other monitor verification tools could do just
the
opposite.
Yes, different packages use one or the other. It seems to me that
most of
them use the "RGB-first" route, though.
If they do, this wouldn't make sense in my opinion. Think of the
(preview) conversion "pipeline" in Photoshop....it's the image's
current profile converted to PCS (Lab or whatever) which is then set
through the monitor profile and converted to RGB values and sent on to
the display. From a monitor profile's perspective, it's always PCS
*first* and RGB *last*. If that's the case, it would make sense to
test/verify/evaluate the PCS-to-RGB conversion side of the profile.
