RE: Strip Black Channel
RE: Strip Black Channel
- Subject: RE: Strip Black Channel
- From: "Broudy, David" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:27:40 -0600
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From: Pete Merck [mailto:email@hidden]
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Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 9:26 AM
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To: 'email@hidden.; Minoru Shimizu
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Subject: RE: Strip Black Channel
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The size of the 4c space (generaly) is smaller than Adobe
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RGB, so converting to the larger RGB space doesn't expand the
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color range. The only control you have now is how you want
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to set your ucr/gcr. Strippng out the K leaves a weakened
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CMY that is now forced to reconstruct a K channel.
this is what I didn't understand in the original post. why would you ever
strip out the K channel? I'd take a CMYK profile of the scanner's printing
condition setup (for the sake of argument, SWOP) then use convert to Profile
in PS6 to an RGB working space.