Re: ProPhotoRGB & Ekta Space
Re: ProPhotoRGB & Ekta Space
- Subject: Re: ProPhotoRGB & Ekta Space
- From: Stefan Fiedler <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:02:23 +0200
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on 10/1/01 5:08 PM, email@hidden at email@hidden wrote:
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> You have a profile of a digital camera, or you have a profile of a
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> slide/flatbed scanner, and that's the RGB profile you want to assign when
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> you scan a photo in. Do you then transform from the scanner RGB into your
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> ProPhoto or Ekta to undo the distortions of the film?
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Yes. You don't want to edit a file in input space, it can be dangerous. They
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are OK for archive spaces but soon or latter you'll want to do some good ol'
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Photoshop work. Working Spaces are well behaved in that R=G=B is a neutral
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and the edits are usually pretty uniform over the range of the image
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(depending on the gamma of the working space). So tag the scans with the
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scanner profile and convert to the Working Space or scan on the fly into the
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Working Space unless you want to archive a high bit raw scan (not a bad idea
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at all).
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Andrew Rodney
As for archiving, does it make a difference if you store a high bit raw
scan in input (e.g. scanner) space vs. archiving it in 16bit in a suitable
(!?) Photoshop working space?
Stefan