Assigning unrelated profiles
Assigning unrelated profiles
- Subject: Assigning unrelated profiles
- From: "Walter Zacharias" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:15:48 -0500
What happens when one assigns a profile to a file without considering its creation working space.
For example: If you receive an RGB file with an embedded profile. The colours in the file maximize the profile's gamut. If you assign, or open in Photoshop with, a different and smaller gamut profile, then in theory there are out-of-gamut colours. What happens to that colour?
PS. This is not a normal workflow for us but I thought it would be the clearest way of explaining my question. The application it has is, when we receive RGB files without a profile, we do need to assign one before conversion. I know your recommendation will be to use a "standard" profile like sRGB or Adobe RGB 1998 "and you'll be fine". But I still want to know what if..., because it has many other applications as well.
Understanding the above would help me decide what to do in other cases like: What if a customer unknowingly opens one of our scans in their unknown/untested working space. After some minor, non-colour changes like resizing, the file is returned. What might have happened to the colour? Should we convert to our working space or simply open with our profile?
Walter Zacharias
Production Analyst
Friesens Corporation
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