Re: Profile tweaking again
Re: Profile tweaking again
- Subject: Re: Profile tweaking again
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:54:35 +0100
Andrew wrote:
Does NewColor do profile editing? I'd assume it does. Hope to see an OSX
version soon. I saw it a few years ago prior to release running on Windows
and it was impressive (not impressive enough to warrant the purchase of a
Windows machine however...)
Yes, it does.
As with Linocolor 6, Newcolor 7000 edits the Perceptual tag in
printer profiles. There is a back door to editing the Relative
Colorimetric tag, too. (... I seem to recall, haven't checked for a
while.)
I have the same problem with the platform as you do. I also kind of
wonder if there was much take-up on the NT4 release for V1 or the
later Win2K release for V2. The user community is squarely on the Mac
and NT4 for a flatbed midrange scanner is just not a learning curve
many people are willing to climb. The other open questions are how
integration of TIFF 16 bit Lab in rev 4 of the ICC spec and
integration of the new software into the existing machine park
operated by the old CPS user base will play out ... or not play out.
We'll just have to see.
(My take is that part of the equation really has nothing to do with
16 bit Lab and backward compatibility etc. but with support for
Abstract type abst profiles in applications like Photoshop.
Photographers choose film for look and feel, but all the tests with
LinoColor DCam 5.1 and LC DC beta 6 (which never appeared) showed
that digicams when profiled right give natural colors which is not
what you want in advertising. Kodak understood this from the start
and ColorFlow was always able to create abst profiles for 'film type
looks', but this is no good without Pshop support. If more people can
get what they want from digicams using ICC profiles, then scanners
are going to move into the periphery faster than we might think.)