Re: Newcolor
Re: Newcolor
- Subject: Re: Newcolor
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 21:18:42 +0100
Andrew Rodney <email@hidden> wrote:
I understand that NewColor actually allows users to save out high bit data
so one can edit in Photoshop. This is a good sign (compared to the brain
dead concept of LinoColor where if you wanted to edit high bit data, you did
it in LinoColor or not at all).
As I've posted several times since DRUPA 2000, the concept in NC7 is
the same as in LC6 which means you save out parametrized finescans
and not raw captures which doesn't make any sense (what would you
want with a scanner driver if you weren't using it for primary
edits). LC6 only lets you save out 8 bit parametrized finescans (Lab,
RGB, CMYK) and NC7 lets you save out 8 bit or 16 bit parametrized
finescans (Lab, RGB, CMYK). But a raw pixel dump is not what you get.
Or maybe you are thinking of the fact that in NC7 when you work in
RGB mode the ColorAssistant isn't supported which again means you
aren't using the scanner to its full advantage? As Roger wrote
recently of the CA, "it is a full blown Expert System that uses
predicate logic, like the Prolog language". You can turn it off in
LC6 or in NC7 choose a mode where it is not active.
But a pixel editor? It's a joke.
Parametrized is a short word for applying the general corrections
involved in fixing image exposure problems and so forth. If you wish
then you can also include edits done with masks. If you don't wish to
add selective edits with masks and so forth then you don't have to,
of course. It's a free world, Andrew -:).
The problem with this discussion is also that I don't have the
current information. But overall I can't think of any other toolset
that seems to arouse so much heated debate and require so many
explanatory posts. Compared to that the total amount of posts for
ProfileMaker is tiny and the UI is next to self-explanatory with
smooth and simple International English (at least it still was the
last time I checked) and Eye-One is even simpler (but boy do I want
that 'device' word changed in the opening window, it's used both for
the measuring instrument and for the device in the sense of the
hardware configuration that defines a gamut of a certain size and
shape). With BESTColor I never really got to a point where I
understood enough of the architecture to have a moderately informed
opinion worth sharing. I should try to change that, though.