Re: Digital Camera Profiling
Re: Digital Camera Profiling
- Subject: Re: Digital Camera Profiling
- From: Steve Upton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:17:54 -0700
At 10:35 AM -0600 4/17/03, Andrew Rodney wrote:
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on 4/17/03 9:14 AM, neil snape wrote:
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> Outside of tight
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> tolerances though and creating a pleasing scenes can be risky using profiles
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> with blind faith. That's where Adobe Camera Raw comes in and does a good job
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> at helping you decide visually how the image should be rendered.
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I'd like to see this kind of solution go forth more (for a V1, ACR is pretty
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sweet and it's only going to get better). Spending hundreds of dollars on
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targets and hundreds on software is a viable solution for some, but for $99,
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I'd advice most users to start shooting RAW and try Camera RAW. Handle the
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RAW like a scanner with a color neg. Make it look as you wish on a
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calibrated display, getting the correct numbers and appearance in a Working
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Space you want, and move forward.
I have a slight exception to this.
It's not that starting with a less-expensive-but-most-of-the-way-there method is a bad idea. It is one we recommend to our clients often.
It's just that I have never really liked negatives and the way they don't fit into a correctly color managed workflow. You have to resort to a "best fit" scenario that bases the color fidelity of your images on that of your screen, and we all know the calibration, gamut, and perceptual problems introduced there!
With digital camera work it seems we have a solution that actually pulls their images into a true ICC-based workflow (including custom-built profiles when required). I have yet to see an example of images (including ACR) where they were not improved (usually significantly) by well-built custom profiles.
Why, after all the evangelizing we've been doing for years about the benefits of custom profiles, are we now supposed to accept an solution that requires tweaking for each image and is based on the fidelity of the display? It's just not good enough for the pros we work with. period. When we show them the difference, none of them have said "whatever, let's just stick with ACR". none.
In the consumer/pro-sumer space yes. In the pro space, no.
Regards,
Steve
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