Re: RGB Color Space Info Request
Re: RGB Color Space Info Request
- Subject: Re: RGB Color Space Info Request
- From: "Michael Strickland" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:11:13 -0800
I have to agree with this perception that asks how important it is to know haw many ICC profiles fit on the head of a pin.
We're just lowly graphic designers here, without a press (or presses) to fingerprint, working in a variety of color spaces. Color management for us has always been little more than the experienced use of our *eyes* in a balanced lighting environment (color booth), and *common sense*. Being Mac users, we've always just turned Color Sync OFF, because at first it was nothing more than a broken promise. As it has grown in complexity, it has become simply too difficult to understand (and therefore impossible to trust) without virtually changing the direction of our careers, and becoming color scientists. This is a very unfortunate situation!
A workflow WITHOUT PROFILES has been very good to us for many years.
Until OS X, that is. In OS X, we haven't been able to figure out HOW to turn Color Sync off! And our first rudimentary tests indicate that it is invasive. Which is a very scary thing, indeed. So it looks as though we're being forced into this complex, boiling cauldron of issues, opinions, methods, and suppliers, just to defend ourselves. (The "Tower of Babel" in the Bible was just a prototype; THIS is the production line!)
So now I'm spending way too much time reading, and here I lurk, in the shadows. <slither, slither>
Michael
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Quoting Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>:
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> Again, the ultimate test in my mind isn't looking at the file, it's looking
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> at the output. I'm more than willing to look at any output of various
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> Working Spaces and change my mind. But so far, the differences are not
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> enough to drag anyone but color geeks into the mind boggling number of
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> discussions that have transpired since Photoshop 5 shipped with a room full
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> of Working Spaces to pick. I think it's an interesting discussion but would
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> hate to see some of the newer color management users stressing over what
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> they might feel is a life altering decision (what working space to use). So
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> far, this discussion is up there with how many ICC profiles can fit on the
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> head of a pin.
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> Andrew
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Thanks for that Andrew, what you said was exactly what all my experience has
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indicated, however in the presence of such experts I was not confident enough
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to suggest.
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In fact as the discussion grew I was begininig to beleive I must have missed
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something fundamental in my earlier reading.
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Thanks for the reality check,
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David Harradine
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