Re: Re(2): AW: Analyzing Workflow
Re: Re(2): AW: Analyzing Workflow
- Subject: Re: Re(2): AW: Analyzing Workflow
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 09:59:30 EDT
In a message dated 5/18/01 8:51:25 AM, email@hidden writes:
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Another issue has come up:
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When we open up raw images from our scanner, assume sRGB (rather than
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Adobe 98, our working space) and then convert them to our working space,
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we get much better results. I've only done a couple of tests but the
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prints seem to match our monitors much more closely.
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Could someone shed some light on this? Does this mean the scanner more
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closely scans to sRGB than Adobe 98 or am I way off here?
This could indicate one of two things. You might indeed have an sRGB scanner;
sRGB capture was supposed to be limited to low cost consumer devices, but I
could name at least one $5000 digital camera that uses sRGB as a source
space, though not for long. <G> The other possibility is that you simply
like the results of "jacking" the saturation by defining the raw numbers in a
smaller space, then swapping to a larger one. Unofrtunately sRGB and AdobeRGB
are not symetrically defined, so the results vary in other factors than
saturation. Unless you are profiling your scanner, then you are at the mercy
of such factors...
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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