Of a wish for Pshop 7
Of a wish for Pshop 7
- Subject: Of a wish for Pshop 7
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:30:45 +0200
In working out the combinations of source to simulation and
simulation to destination space for proofing in Pshop 6, it dawned on
me the other day that the two transforms are unrelated, and not
WYSIWYG as in Linocolor.
It is doable for a user to chose Edit > Color Settings > Relative
Colorimetric without Black Point Compensation (or AbsCol for that
matter), and choose Edit > Mode > CMYK clipping 15 to 20 steps off
the image shadows, and never know what hit her.
Users should learn never ever to work without enabling View > Proof
Setup > Custom > Simulate Ink Black. This both enables the source RGB
working space to simulation CMYK to destination monitor RGB
transform, but also matches the ink black absolutely to the deeper
black range of the monitor, lightening what should be light.
On the whole it is an architectural flaw that the mode change from
source RGB working space to destination CMYK space is one transform
and the monitor transform another. As it is the user has to remember
to manually extend the default RGB working space to monitor RGB
transform by including the CMYK simulation space.
Enabling a mode change should switch the monitor transform to match
the mode change transform. Otherwise things go south.
Oh for the merry hours spent with rendering intents -:)