Of RGB working spaces and working RGB workflows
Of RGB working spaces and working RGB workflows
- Subject: Of RGB working spaces and working RGB workflows
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 09:14:22 +0200
email@hidden wrote:
the problem is the result of starting with a working color
space rather than performing a "profile-to-profile" conversion to get into a
working color space.
For example, a photographer that has a digital camera might select Adobe 98 as
the working color space in Photoshop, acquire the camera images into
Photoshop,
and then assign the Adobe 98 profile to the images.
This user error is functionally identical to setting the RGB working
space as the system monitor profile.
The camera profile and not the RGB working space describe the camera.
The measured monitor profile and not the RGB working space describe
the monitor.
The underlying glitch is that Apple and Adobe are not clarifying in
ten foot high letters that RGB working spaces are NOT measured device
spaces, but a type of RGB PCS workaround.
RGB working spaces can be a good user experience, just as good as Lab
as working space. But the amount of education that goes into making
RGB working spaces a good user experience is proportionately higher.
So speak up and make it loud enough that the folks out in the
trenches can hear what's being said, and simple enough that they can
understand what's being said, too.
--
Henrik Holmegaard
TechWrite, Denmark