Re: Pre-color-management scans legacy
Re: Pre-color-management scans legacy
- Subject: Re: Pre-color-management scans legacy
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:01:27 -0700
on 1/4/02 6:13 AM, Paul Schilliger at email@hidden wrote:
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When I started scanning my images, I had PS 6 color management disabled
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(I am now scanning in the ICC mode). How should I consider the scans
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that I made earlier in non-specified RGB mode?
To be accurate, even with PS 6 set to "color management disabled" you are
still using ICC profiles. You simply tell PS to ignore embedding profiles
but the application still uses your preferred RGB Working Space to preview
the files (and for conversions from there on). It's not a good idea to set
the application that way!
What you've done is remove the meaning of the numbers in the file. So the
image is "non-specific" to some degree.
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I have scanned them using
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the default end points mode proposed by Don Hutcheson, and I kept the
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raw scan values, adding simply a curves layer. Has the color gamut been
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clipped that way or is it as wide as for the scans I now make into a
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wide gamut profile?
How was the scanner set when you made the profile you are now using? IF it
was set as before (when you were not using a profile), then in theory you
should be able to use that profile for all the untagged scans you have. If
you changed the settings, you'd probably be albe to scan an IT8 or HCT
target and build a new profile that reflects the condition of the scanner
and use that for all the untagged scans (just tag them and be done).
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Would you suggest a way to integrate the
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non-profiled scans into the color managed workflow?
Scan an IT8 or HCT target just as you scanned the untagged images (assuming
you had a single setting for them, if not you are kind of screwed). Build a
new profile and use it for all those scans. If you altered the behavior of
the scanner for all the untagged scans, then things get a lot more
complicated. Best you can do is use the "Assign Profile" command in
Photoshop 6 and pick a profile that produces the best preview on your
calibrated display and tag the scans with that profile.
Andrew Rodney