Re: Profile Editing Thoughts
Re: Profile Editing Thoughts
- Subject: Re: Profile Editing Thoughts
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:40:44 -0400
Thank you Darrian for your posting. Now, please allow me to retort. I want
to clarify that I haven't abandoned a CMS, I'm just frustrated by the
complications of getting from 75% there to 90% . We use a color managed
workflow with a moderate degree of success. I should also give some
information on what we do. We are a small in-house pre-press department and
we do all of our own proofing on an IRIS 2PRINT running a TR001 SWOP
simulation. We have a profile of this device running the SWOP simulation on
a publication stock. We seperate all of our scans direcly into CMYK (using
the output profile of the proofer). We process all of our RGB digital
captures using the camera profile as source and the same IRIS profile as
destination. All of our monitors are calibrated to 50000K 1.8. Our CMYK
setup in Photoshop is the same output profile we use to convert to CMYK on
the scanner and in the digital capture conversion. Our proofs look
reasonably close to the monitor...most of the time. Some colors just never
look right. I'd rather use what we have than nothing at all, certainly. I
understand the concepts behind the CMS...and some people understand it at a
level that I never will. When people start discussing white points and
metamerism and the merits of rel. col. rendering I get lost real fast. That
last 10% gets complicated very quickly. I am hoping that one day it will
become easier for the rest of us to make these adjustments to the workflow
ourselves without paying a consultant to come in and tweak things. I think
this will eventually happen...and the color managed workflow has come a
long way. We'll get there eventually.
-eric-