cms blues
cms blues
- Subject: cms blues
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:50:33 +0100
on 01/12/2001 19:29, email@hidden at email@hidden
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Prior to the purchase of the profiling products we have been "visually"
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calibrating the displays. We used a combination of the Adobe Gamma control
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panel for white point, gamma and rgb gun settings, and the "Knoll Gamma
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control panel" to make a gamma and white point tweaks which was then loaded
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at start-up. My question then is this... after I have calibrated the
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monitor should I no longer use the Adobe Gamma created profile as the system
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profile, or the Knoll gamma control panel as a global adjustment? I'm
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pretty sure the answer is no, and I think I understand why. Here's the
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thing that confuses me though. Our monitors were set up (pre color
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management) by another person who I believe knew what he was doing, although
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I've never met him. Problem is he used a white point of D65 and I don't
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know why. I am not comfortable with changing all the monitors without first
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hearing that what I believe I've learned is correct.
Mea culpa. No just kidding. There are arguments for which D65 will get you a
more reliable and easier to implement screen preview. Personally I'm at D65
and prefer it a long way over D5o. If you have go D50 use it only on the
really colour critical stations and only with recent top quality monitors.
Don't try to make 50 monitors all look the same.
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3) I have a gamut for inkjet proofing and a different one for press. Will I
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need to convert my images twice then, once for the proofer and once for the
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press? If so, should I be doing the color space conversion in the print
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dialog from quark where I can use different rendering intents and profiles
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rather than in PhotoShop?
Get your group some copies of Compass ProXT by Praxisoft. The only way to
go. There is a lite version free on the MacOs 9 disc under
goodies/calibration I think. Try it and see how you like it. Super simple
with killer effeciency.
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4) I am hoping to find a definitive book on color management which is
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written fairly clearly. I have found so far many documents, but nothing
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which gives a "clear defined path" to implementing color management. For
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instance I've see rendering intent definitions, but not clear
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recommendations for usage. Yeah I know to some degree it is image
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dependant, but I won't have the luxury of trying out the different intents
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on every image to see which best suits it. So to put it bluntly, is there a
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color management guide written for the sub 160 IQ crowd?
The subject is too large for any one to pin down all the uses for all
workflows. That's what the list is for drawing on the experience of so many
varying needs and viewpoints. There are so many truly excellent sources by
people who generously share their vast knowledge that you'd be best to look
at most of them, even briefly, to get the most out of these sources. Too bad
there isn't a repertoire of these url's for the list but here's one that's
great www.iccabc.com
others not to miss digital dog, Brian Lawler's, see Profilecity,
Praxisoft, buy Bruce Fraser's book. so many more... start there and you'll
be well on the way.
Hope this helps.
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Neil Snape
24, rue Modigliani
75015 Paris France
telephone 33-1-45578055
fax 33 1 45546540
email@hidden
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Neil Snape
24, rue Modigliani
75015 Paris France
telephone 33-1-45578055
fax 33 1 45546540
email@hidden