Re: Profiles wanted
Re: Profiles wanted
- Subject: Re: Profiles wanted
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 09:20:16 +0200
Don Hutcheson <email@hidden> wrote:
To solve this I always apply a small hue
correction in ProfileEditor to very saturated reds after building a printer
profile in ProfileMaker.
There are differences in input profilers as there are differences in
film types. Fuji is different from Agfa is different from Kodak. When
the Kodak folks first saw how Fuji thought memory colors like grass
and sky should look, they went, 'But it isn't as saturated as that'.
So the Fuji folks come from a culture where saturation boosts and not
color perspective is the rule, and they think different. Our concept
of neutral gray is too yellow in some areas of the world. As I have
said many times you get the same differences between say ProfileMaker
and ScanOpen. The former will give you colder skin tones, the latter
much warmer. I think I've written this many times before. Which is
right and which is wrong? Personally, I have a bias against too much
red. If there is a problem on the press, it's worst if the red
overshoots. There's a reason for that, too. Human beings use skin
tone to interpret emotional states just as much as they do gesture,
facial expression and voice modulation. If in a photograph the skin
tone flushes, whether the shot is of an actor or of a model or of a
private portrait, the signal will be utterly wrong. Even in East Asia
faces are chalked cold white -:).
If you decide on profile editing, beware which tag and which
profile(s) in your proofing chain you edit. It is precarious to edit
profiles without a crystal clear concept of profile chains and
internal tag structures.