Re: An Observation
Re: An Observation
- Subject: Re: An Observation
- From: Lee Varis <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:53:43 -0800
- Organization: Varis PhotoMedia
Hi all,
This has been an interesting thread ever since John threw down the
gauntlet - I think though, that we all are basically in agreement that
files can be prepared improperly and evaluated easily by looking at the
"numbers". This has little to do with whether an ICC workflow has been
used or not. The traditional way of doing prepress has worked well in
the past and will continue to work in the future - when applied in the
traditional context! This approach implies a CMYK workflow where images
are originally prepared for a press.
A new way of working is emerging and it will become increasingly
important to step back from our traditional approaches, just a little,
to evaluate whether there might be other approaches that are equally
valid. The use of an ICC profile is really just a standard way of
utilizing a CLUT in an open workflow that allows various members of a
workgroup to exchange files. It certainly doesn't miraculously "fix"
problem files and it does introduce a level of complexity that some may
choose to avoid.
Digital photography is introducing new pressures on traditional prepress
because it makes it harder to maintain quality control in a "closed
loop" shop suddenly the workers preparing film for output are forced
to deal with files that have been captured outside the shop by
photographers who, most likely, have no prepress experience. If there is
no open exchange between the two groups you have a recipe for disaster.
It is hard to communicate via "numbers" when dealing with visual
artists like designers and photographers but the emergence of standard
desktop computers and affordable desktop digital capture devices like
scanners and cameras have forced the issue - there's no turning back
now. The modern prepress worker can not afford to be elitist.
So what's a body to do?
Communicate, educate, cooperate - its what we all are attempting to do
here. I think until recently its been very easy to say things like
"leave the prepress to the prepress workers" but like it or not the idea
of open color management is not going to go away so we'll have to find a
way to adapt. Both sides have to keep pushing for improvements in system
design and implementation of standards. Right now we are in the "ugly"
period - how long we stay there depends on how well we all do in
developing working strategies for exchanging digital files with or
without ICC tags.
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