Re: Apple Cinema display for color sensit ive work âanother view (and a request f or guidance).
Re: Apple Cinema display for color sensit ive work âanother view (and a request f or guidance).
- Subject: Re: Apple Cinema display for color sensit ive work âanother view (and a request f or guidance).
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:15:48 EST
In a message dated 1/4/02 6:03:45 AM, email@hidden writes:
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For colour correcting RGB pics, I turn to my favourite tool the good
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old-fashioned "Knoll Gamma" application (remember it?) that shipped with
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earlier version of PhotoShop. I LOVE this little application and wonder
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why
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it is no longer available, but it still works great, even with the Cinema
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22.
The reason the application is no longer distributed is because it uses a
problematic approach, one which has been replaced by the ICC profiling
concepts that you admit to not understanding. The idea with ICC profiling is
to make your monitor accurate. The idea with the Knoll control panel is to
make it as inaccurate as you like, to misadjust it any way you choose,
creating a closed loop color system where what you see on your monitor is
related only to one output conditions: the press that printed the piece you
mess-up your monitor to match. This would be a bit like resetting your
compass so the needle didn't point north any more, but pointed towards the
place you wanted to go... that would be simpler, and fine as long as you
never want to go anywhere else, or start from anywhere else, or let anyone
else use it or... you get the idea.
The Knoll control panel will invalidate Photoshop's proofing setup, output
profile conversion, and most everything else that has been developed in the
intervening years.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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