Re: Colour workflow and management
Re: Colour workflow and management
- Subject: Re: Colour workflow and management
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 22:58:09 +0200
I manage to profile
monitors, printers and scanners all the time,
Hmm...this isn't about which side of the pond we're on, but about how we work.
The way I see it, the strength of the device profile concept is that
we get to fingerprint color like we never did before, but the
weakness of it is that we have to understand our own equipment like
we never did before.
I write, and from a writing point of view myopia is good. Myopia
means you understand in minute detail how something very specific
works in relation to something very general. That's how I figured out
the framework for rendering intents, and the framework for PostScript
color management.
It's also how you get to find the balance in things, what a
technology is good for and what it isn't good for. If you don't
focus, you don't learn. And as so much of the application software is
still broken, it's still about learning.
The consulting point of view is different, it's about diversity,
different strokes for different folks, finding something to sell for
as many segments as possible. This leads into a different direction,
and broader horizons, and I'm not saying that one or the other is
more productive, they are just differences.
But you are right that myopia has problems of its own. Like walking
into lampposts and out in front of cars. On the other hand, life is
there for the living -:).