Going from output space back to working space
Going from output space back to working space
- Subject: Going from output space back to working space
- From: "Scott Kilbourne" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:16:52 -0500
- Thread-topic: Going from output space back to working space
We use color management on Macs and PC's using iQueue to convert from Adobe RGB98 to the required output space (Fuji Pictrography, other digital printers, SWOP, etc.). We have trouble with some folks working in AdobeRGB98 space and then having their output gumut limited when converting to the smaller output spaces. This happens most with images/graphics that use "artificial" colors that the artist added. After trying for the 100th time to explain to them what happened ("No, 255,0,0 in AdobeRGB98 is not a fully saturated red in Fuji space - it gets remapped to a duller red-orange because it is so far out of gamut.") I am rethinking our work flow.
Let me propose a slightly modified work flow for us for youse guys to shoot holes in. The photog comes back from the shoot, dumps his images into the 'puter and assigns his camera profile to them. He already knows that the immediate use for these images is to make Fuji prints (for instance), but they may be retasked later for other output (Web page, offset, etc.) Is there a downside to having the photog immediately convert the images directly from the camera profile to Fuji output space and work on them in that output space? Since we are embedding profiles in all our images, can't we go back to AdobeRGB98 or sRGB or SWOP or whatever we need later on? We don't need a gamut as large as AdobeRGB98, but the Fuji is larger than ColorMatch. Why not just work on the files in their destination space (no need to use Proof in PS)and then send them to AdobeRGB98 for archiving?
-Scott Kiilbourne
Wake Forest University
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