re:no use of scanner profiles
re:no use of scanner profiles
- Subject: re:no use of scanner profiles
- From: email@hidden (Anthony Sanna)
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:11:50 -0600
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Having experience on drum scanners and the Imacon system I
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find scanner profiles for lack of a better word useless.
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......if I make changes to my scanner settings than my profile
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is no longer of any value.
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I don't expect my client to pay me top dollar to blindly
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follow what a profile will give me.
No. But they pay you top dollar to know what you're talking about.
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I just feel I am smarter than any scanner profile.
Have faith, Paul. You probably ARE smarter than a scanner profile. It's
just that your thinking about where the scanner profile is applied is
wrong.
With good, ICC savvy software like the Imacon's ColorFlex, the scanner
profile has nothing to do with the color controls available. Given an
accurate monitor profile, you can tweak, neutralize, saturate, and curve
to your heart's content. When you like what you see, save the file with
the scanner profile applied (hopefully, one you've made for the scanner),
and open and convert to your working space in Photoshop.
The scanner profile doesn't lock down the controls, but simply put, it's
there to describe to downstream applications the colorspace that the
numbers are coming from. Think of a book written in German with a sticky
note on the cover that says "This book is written in German". Thus, when
you receive the book, you know to pull down your German-English
dictionary to translate the text. The sticky note, however, in no way
restricts what the author has written.
Tony
Anthony R. Sanna
Vice-President
SACO Foods, Inc.
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