Re: Profiling & LinoColor...
Re: Profiling & LinoColor...
- Subject: Re: Profiling & LinoColor...
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 14:51:51 +0200
email@hidden wrote:
If I understand it correctly, the calibration scan
bypasses any automatic corrections that LinoColor provides in the 'Set Up'
palette.
Yes, it saves raw 8 bit RGB to disk.
But then there is the matter of the 'Import -> Set Base Density -> Dialogue'
which allows for 'Set Base Density' and 'Analyse Attributes.' What impact do
these options have upon the calibration scan? Should I set 'Analyse
Attributes' for 'Positive' and 'Negative' in any specific manner?
Leave the Base Density function alone. And for the following reason:
a. the IT8 transparency you scan assumes a density of 3.1,
b. actual transparencies have densities from 3 to 3.5 (actual
reflectives from 1.8 to 2.0).
An image with a range other than the IT8 assumes will not be
optimally without the Base Density Analysis in Linocolor and Newcolor.
If LinoColor is making decisions about base density on an image by image
basis, wouldn't that wreak havoc on the process of trying to get consistent
colour?
There are two types of scanning software.
c. the simple type that only lets you use an ICC profile for the
originals that match the IT8 used to build the profile, meaning that
you have to lock down the scanner controls, and
d. the type that lets you use an ICC profile as well as the scanner controls.
Is there some fundamental element of LinoColor that I am failing to
understand? Help!
Yes, you don't understand that you don't need to use the controls the
software offers you, which is quite understandable -:). As you should
leave the Base Density Analysis function alone, the Base Density
Analysis arguably shouldn't have a user interface in the first place.
Hence it is hidden in Newcolor due on the Mac next year.