Call for user feedback for ICC June meeting
Call for user feedback for ICC June meeting
- Subject: Call for user feedback for ICC June meeting
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:00:06 +0100
Below is a mail from Professor Stefan Brues asking for user feedback
both in terms of the ICC framework itself and as this is inseparable
then also implementations of it in applications.
Instead of offline mails criss-crossing behind the scenes it would be
far better to tackle this up front as a thread here on the List. If
we all see the same ideas then we are all in a position to comment.
This way concepts are more efficiently and economically clarified.
The ICC has no live web site, no user list, nothing to steer the
development and business interests towards what we need.
Steve Upton suggested a while back that human interface guidelines
would be a big help. So as he's given me ColorThink to play with (and
harass hardware vendors with -:)) I'll second that suggestion. At the
moment Adobe and Heidelberg call characterizations calibrations
(Adobe meaning CSA/CRD tables and Heidelberg meaning ICC profiles
-:)), Adobe and Quark call the production CMYK popup 'Separations
Printer' which BEST calls 'Reference Profile' which GretagMacbeth
calls 'Simulation Profile' and so on and so forth. If we are ever to
make sense of chaining our ICC profiles in UIs, then here's something
to iron out here. And I've tried and tried to talk to Apple since
ColorSync 2.5 about the ColorSync Profile list box in Monitors (if
Steve Swen remembers the mails -:)) versus the popup in the ColorSync
panel and a bunch of other UI stuff that really isn't that hard to
fix. And as for the Photoshop and Illustrator and Acrobat developer
teams, may their sins be forgiven in the hope of a fresh start -:).
/ Henrik
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Dear color management community,
During the last meeting of the International Color Consortium (ICC)
in Fort Lauderdale we had an intensive discussion of an ideal future
architecture for OS based color management solutions. We felt that
the ICC may have experienced a lack of feedback from 'regular users'
over the last years and would like to change this significantly.
This is the official request to provide your personal feedback to the
ICC. The Research Implementation Research Group has formed a small
sub-group which will collect and evaluate your ideas and other input
prior to the next regular ICC meeting in June 2001. This activity
gives you an opportunity to :
- Provide criticism of the current ICC profile specs (see
http://www.color.org for the latest version).
- Propose features for future ICC profile specs.
- Give the ICC an idea of your expectation of better working color
management system solutions.
- Propose ideas for a future ICC system architecture (incl. dynamic
CMMs, color appearance models etc.). What are the features you expect
to be handled by a default implementation?
Please feel free to distribute this request to any color related
mailing lists, user forums or active color management user worldwide.
Please send your feedback in Europe to myself (email@hidden) or
in the US to Michael Rodriguez (email@hidden).
The ICC is looking forward to get your ideas before April 30th, 2001!
Please don't hesitate to provide even 'low-level' kind of input
whenever you feel this is of importance for your individual color
management solution.
Stefan Brues
ECI chairman and ICC task force coordinator
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Br|es
University of Wuppertal
Fachbereich 5 - Advanced Communication Systems Laboratory
Rainer-Gruenter-Strasse 21
42119 Wuppertal, Germany
Phone: +49/202/4391167
Fax: +49/202/4391144
email: email@hidden
Website:
http://www.kommtech.uni-wuppertal.de