Re: Dancing in the minefield....
Re: Dancing in the minefield....
- Subject: Re: Dancing in the minefield....
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:21:23 EST
In a message dated 12/17/02 11:30:20 AM, email@hidden writes:
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I am relativly new to the color management minefield and am looking for
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a
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little direction so I don't lose a limb.
What? You expect to get through this with all four!?
I have been following the
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discussion here for a couple of months and have learned a great deal (Thanks
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to all!!), but have several questions that keep coming up....
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I work in a "closed loop"
Its only a closed loop if your inhouse injet is your only output, ever... and
most closed loop methods will also limit you to one monitor and one printer.
with a Mac G4, Mitsu 2060u monitor, Nikon 4000
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scanner, Epson 1280 printer and primarily use Fuji Provia transparency
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film.
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I use Optical and calibrate/profile the monitor to 6500K. Is there a
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difference between 6500K and D65?
Not that matter for your monitor; stick to 6500; or better yet, precalibrate
with PreCAL, then set OptiCAL to Native Whitepoint, as you will already have
targeted 6500 in PreCAL.
I also have been setting my gamma to
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1.8,
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but am wondering if I should move to 2.2, as some have suggested this might
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be a better way?!
If you like, the difference should be negligable...
Also, should the scanner's gamma(1.8) be set to that
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of
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the monitor's(1.8), (or 2.2 for that matter)?
Your scanner should be set to get the best scan... the workflow will take
care of itself.
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Working Space...From what I understand, the archive/working space can't
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be
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too small (clipping data) or too large(banding of color). I started using
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Adobe98 but I feel I am losing some data, and am now considering Ektachrome
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Space, J.Holmes or BestRGB. Any thoughts?
I doubt you are losing much in AdobeRGB; and the larger spaces are really
designed for 16 bit per channel, so you could move up to a compromise space,
but make sure you are seeing real colors not available in AdobeRGB before you
bother to go proprietary.
Also, should the monitor and
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working space be the same gamma ?
Doesn't hurt, but hardly necessary.
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Scanning...I have read/heard from other sources that one should set their
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scanner software for default shadow/hilites to 4 and 250 respectively...is
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this in fact a good idea and what will this do? I assume it is to prevent
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loss of shadow or hilite detail?! Does the software clipping setting act
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the
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same way? Factory default is .50% for shadow/hilites.
There are many approaches to scanning; but in general, allowing a bit of head
and tail room is not a bad idea, unless it conflicts with some specific
managed workflow.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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