Re: colorflow icc vs. doctor pro
Re: colorflow icc vs. doctor pro
- Subject: Re: colorflow icc vs. doctor pro
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:03:09 -0700
on 1/17/02 7:43 AM, publix team at email@hidden wrote:
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can someone please point out the major differences between
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the products concerning profile editing in Photoshop?
I only know of two:
Custom Color ICC from Kodak and DoctorPro from Color Vision. Both have
advantages and disadvantages:
Custom Color ICC
Advantages are it can edit both sides of a profile and you can specify which
rendering intent you want to edit. You can simply acquire an image to edit
and then work away. A tagger of pixels placed in the file record the changes
so you can then "export" a tuned profile. I like to do all my corrections on
adjustment layers and use them as my "edit lists."
Disadvantage is that you need to load a half dozen or so goofy Microsoft
extensions and if one isn't running, the plug-in doesn't run (or give you
any indication of why). Typically awful Kodak inspired UI. At least once you
tell the software what you want, it goes away and you have Photoshop to deal
with. Only runs on a Mac (NOT a disadvantage to me...). About a $100 more
than Doctor Pro.
DoctorPro
Advantages is that it runs on Mac and PC and cost less than Custom Color
plus no goofy extensions to deal with. Pretty easy and clean UI.
Disadvantage is you can't edit just the preview portion of the profile and
you can't pick which intent to tune (they all get tuned). You have to do all
your work first in PS by making an action. It's not really a big deal and
the action is much like the Adjustment "Edit List" I use above.
Once you start doing the actual editing, the products are moot as you are
working in Photoshop.
Andrew Rodney