Re: feedback tome tome
Re: feedback tome tome
- Subject: Re: feedback tome tome
- From: Joel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 07:41:10 -0600
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 09:32:18 +0100
To: email@hidden
From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Call for user feedback
Cc: John Zimmerer <email@hidden>
(Start part 2 of Mac OS 9 / ColorSync 3 UI make-over + buzzing Adobe -:))
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f. Revisiting item (c) above then I've often grumbled here on the
List over the fact that the 'ColorSync Profile' scrollbox and
'Display' popup show non-monitor spaces such as CIERGB and AppleRGB
and AdobeRGB and whatever else. These profiles are properly type
<space> = color space conversion profiles. They are not type <mntr>
in any functional sense of the word. Therefore, a common user error
is to set a synthetic RGB space as monitor profile. I wonder how many
thouasands upon thousands of users set the same profile in the
'ColorSync Profile' scrollbox as in RGB Setup in PS5 - my take is
around 50%!! John Gnaegy is right that Apple can't help it if other
vendors for internal architectural reasons choose to name type <spac>
profiles as type <mntr>. But it is not a practice I think would be
called user friendly -:). Form follows function so please Chris Cox
and Mark Hamburg and Thomas Knoll and all the rest of you, make sure
you classify a profile according to what it does! Because the effect
of Adobe's fuddled classification is that Linocolor 6 and Photoshop 6
are color managing to a synthetic RGB space which has zip and zero to
do with the actual monitor sitting in front of the user. And that's
not what ICC color management is about.
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et el: and certain manufacturers follow suite in referring to
"monitor space profiles" and "display profiles" as RGB input profiles.
Ok,Ok, ... I'll lay off the Scanvec whipping post..:>
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joel johnstone - designtype
Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
email: work: email@hidden
color geek in residence, reality notwithstanding