Re: fluorescent colors in colorsync environment
Re: fluorescent colors in colorsync environment
- Subject: Re: fluorescent colors in colorsync environment
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:13:00 EDT
In a message dated 7/10/01 4:04:14 AM, email@hidden writes:
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> If I use a good digital camera to shoot fluorescent objects and print
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to an
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> Epson inkjet, I get some amazingly bright colors, but "fluorescent",
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by
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> definition, means colors beyond what can occur from the amount of light
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> available in the proper band of the spectrum, and stealing light from
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other
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> bands to increase emittance. That requires fluorescent inks to
accomplish...
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> and is beyond standard ICC profile definitions, as they don't deal with
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> spectral data, only Lab values.
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Actually I have my doubts. Regarded from an environment of measuring and
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computing you're absolutely right. But regarded from the realm of perception
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I don't think your statement is necessarely true. As I explained before
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it's
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easy to photograph fluorescent colors, it doesn't need any special
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equipment. Within the boundaries of the picture the colors are really
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fluorescent, outside the picture they are just ordinary colors. In my
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experience colors are highly relative. Measuring and computing is only
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part
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of the story.
What you describe is an impression of fluorescence based on brightness and
saturation, and not true fluorescence... and if this "pseudo-fluorescence" is
what you are dealing with, then I agree completely with your methods.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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