Re: Help Choosing a Color Management System
Re: Help Choosing a Color Management System
- Subject: Re: Help Choosing a Color Management System
- From: email@hidden (Bruce Fraser)
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:14:39 -0800
At 2:06 PM -0700 3/12/02, Andrew Rodney wrote:
In FlexColor you scan using the Flextight Input into ProPhoto right?
Yes, but only because I can.
I was referring to a case where you don't have such an input profile (and
the question of the day is, just what is this Flextight Input profile that
allows us to use it with a color neg???).
I think it's simply a profile that records how the scanner responds
to color stimuli.
Let's say you are working in a scanner software that just throws RGB to the
screen for preview. Once the scan was finished and in Photoshop, wouldn't it
look pretty fugly with ProPhoto as the assigned profile?
Yes, but it looks pretty fugly after being converted to ProPhoto too.
I convert from ProPhoto in FlexColor simply because I can, and
because I want to get the image into a gray-balanced space. With
other scanners, I've simply assigned ProPhoto and started whacking.
I'd say that doing the conversion in FlexColor saves me about 30
seconds in editing, plus the conversion time since it's being done on
the fly during the scan.
I always scan raw -- no endpoint setting, no gray balance setting,
auto-everything turned off. The resulting scans are always very flat
and very unsaturated, but usually only takes about three moves to
bring them in line.
If I'm scanning well-exposed chromes, and the object of the exercise
is actually to reproduce them, I use an input profile (built with PM4
and Don Hutcheson's excellent target). It's very much worthwhile. But
with scanners that don't let you profile raw high-bit capture, I just
edit them. And with cneg, I always have to edit...
B
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