Re: use of scanner profiles
Re: use of scanner profiles
- Subject: Re: use of scanner profiles
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 13:23:39 EDT
In a message dated 6/8/01 7:31:42 AM, email@hidden writes:
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>What do you think happens to those colors that
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>your scanner produces that are outside the limits of Adobe 98? When you
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>open up an untagged scan file into A98 those colors will be clipped.
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>However, if your file was tagged with it's own profile, the out-of-gamut
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>colors would be remapped into your working space.
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If the working space is smaller than the scanner space, then the out
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of gamut colors are clipped. A matrix-based RGB working space has no
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mechanism for remapping out of gamut colors. Remapping out of gamut
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colors is supported in printer profiles.
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Wait a minute guys (and EuroNinjas)... if an untagged scan is opened in
AdobeRGB (or any other RGB space) it is not clipped, it is assumed to be
native to that space. No numbers are viewed as out of gamut, no distinctions
are lost, its just that the colors those numbers are interpreted as may not
be what you expect. You need to *convert* to clip. No Kolor Fu can change th
at... <G>
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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