RE: Soft Proofing
RE: Soft Proofing
- Subject: RE: Soft Proofing
- From: Scott Olswold <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:26:42 -0400
John,
If I'm working CMYK+, then I don't bother with what the "+" looks like...I'm
still old-fashioned in the respect that I let the chips fall where they may
with spot colors. Mr. Tobie has great results with profiled Pantone colors
(and I'm sure with Hexachrome and CcMmYK)--he's told me so in the past; I've
just never bothered. So....
There's no way in the world that a monitor can accurately render the "K" in
CMYK...but it doesn't have to. My understanding is that the CMM pulls the
LAB values from the CMYK profile and uses them, via the RGB profile and
further modification using the monitor profile, to create the colors on your
monitor. Not perfect, but accurate enough for most CMYK work.
The greens, purples, blues, and reds that throw you a curve ball are most
probably out of the CMYK profile's gamut...their display will change, and
that's expected, particularly with non-CMYK (library/spot colors). That's
where Mr. Tobie's workflow pops in. I don't know how good that system is at
metallics.
So whether or not there's a home plate is totally dependent on what you're
thinking the CMS is supposed to do.
Scott Olswold
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