Re(2): Looking for Colorspace Answers
Re(2): Looking for Colorspace Answers
- Subject: Re(2): Looking for Colorspace Answers
- From: "William Close" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 10:22:27 -0500
email@hidden writes:
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The problem is that Adobe 98 is not an input profile?it does not describe
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the
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characteristics of the camera. The proper approach would be to start with
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a
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custom input profile and convert to your working color space profile; at
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the lab
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the images would be converted to the color space of the output device.
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Unfortunately, most portrait photographers do not have input profiles for
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their
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cameras and/or scanners.
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If you do not have a custom input profile, sRGB may be the best place to
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start
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but, as you have noticed, this is not a perfect solution. You can try
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using a
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"canned" profile provided by the device manufacturer or you can buy
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software to
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build a custom profile. If you have a Kodak camera, profiles are
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available on
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the Kodak website
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(http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/software/digCamProfessionalDrivers.shtml).
This is beginning to make sense a little at a time.
Let me run through our set up and see if I've got this straight...
Scanner Kodak 3570 (running through KPIS)
-Input profile (from Kodak) 3570colorneg
-Output profile sRGB- our working space
Open images in PS- there is no attempt to convert because the scanner
embedded sRGB. (right so far?)
Thing is, scanner preview window does not match what comes up in PS. If we
turn off monitor compensation, it matches more closely.
But, after doing all these tests, if we have the scanner output profile
set to anything else, PS never asks if we want to convert due to a profile
mismatch. Its like the scanner software is not tagging the images with a
profile.
I've got a whole slew of Imacon scanner profiling question, but I'll wait
until later. :-)
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William Close
GLS, Imaging
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