Re: Analyzing Workflow
Re: Analyzing Workflow
- Subject: Re: Analyzing Workflow
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 09:53:27 +0200
"William Close" <email@hidden> wrote:
We have been trying to take control of color management and I am looking
for advice on our workflow.
I know the feeling. Like Winnie the Pooh on his way over the water to
rescue Piglet, sometimes with Pooh on top of the barrel, and
sometimes with the barrel on top of Pooh -:).
As I understand it, we are to adjust the printer profile to match more
closely to our workstations. Is this correct?
No, you are to calibrate the printing device to it's optimum gamut
and reproduction capability. Then when you are sure the calibration
is repeatable and that you can bring the printing device back to the
desired state, characterize that state in an ICC profile.
The ICC profile for your production process is what you use to target
colors for that device. You don't alter the device profile to do
that. You use Photoshop 6 to alter the images going into the device
profile.
If each person in the workflow alters the profile for the production
process, you will be a trouble in no time flat. Make the best
possible hardware setup. Make a 16 bit profile for that. Check that
your profile works well.
And then don't change the production profile. If something is off, it
will be the calibration. So recalibrate your hardware and you're back
on track.
(NB The idea of editing the production profile and leaving the RGB
numbers intact is quite another issue. It comes out of early ICC
implementations in Live Picture and ColorBlind Edit, which assume
that you have already done the steps described above.)
Hope this helps.