a strange scanner profile
a strange scanner profile
- Subject: a strange scanner profile
- From: "shAf" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:51:36 -0800
I have just discovered an ICM file which PS6 treats differently
than did PS5.
Nikon distributed several ICM files with its LS-2000 film scanner
... some of them being monitor compensation files for software preview
of the scan, some of them being only a renamed version of the typical
"color space" profiles used with Photoshop (all of them loadable into
PS5 and indicating identical color parameters). However, having
upgraded to PS6, I have discovered another ICM which PS6 allows to be
used as a "working" color space. It is apparently intended to be a
wide gamut space representative of the scanner's gamut ... its
primaries implying a space almost as large as PS's "wide gamut",
nearer to the size of EktaspaceRGB. Yet, this is not a typical ICM
... like I said, PS5 wouldn't allow me to use it, but PS6 will. And,
it's file size (~500kb) is also much larger than "color space"
profiles (~1kb).
I have no intention of using this ICM as a working color space,
but PS6 allowing it raises a question as to "what has changed with
PS6?". My 1st guess is this is a LUT-type device profile, but why
allow such a profile to be used as a color space?
shAf :o)