Re: LightJet vs Frontier Gamuts ...or... gamut discussion
Re: LightJet vs Frontier Gamuts ...or... gamut discussion
- Subject: Re: LightJet vs Frontier Gamuts ...or... gamut discussion
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:06:32 -0400
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From: Neil Speers <email@hidden>
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"So, it it doesn't "hurt" the printer to use a larger gamut, why would
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you want to compress the gamut in your file before doing any work with
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it?"
Michael wrote:
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Hi Roger,
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Compressing the color gamut will give you a more realistic idea of how
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out-of-gamut colors will be remapped during a conversion to your output
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space. If your working space gamut is too large it will contain colors
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that cannot be accurately reproduced on many output devices. This might
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seem like a non-issue since Photoshop has an accurate method of soft
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proofing your output by referencing your output profile, however, in
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order to take full advantage of an icc workflow you should not rely
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solely on the soft proof for a particular device. Working on your
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images (and archiving them) in Adobe RGB will maintain your color
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fidelity and allow you to re-purpose your images for any output device.
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It's important to note that in addition to maintaining color fidelity
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Adobe RGB also behaves predictably when you make adjustments to your
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images (unlike many device-specific, non-uniform color spaces).
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Cheers,
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Michael Roberts
Thank's Michael for your reply. Yes, I am very well aware of what lurks
outside the gamut of my monitor. You see, you wrote "if a working space is
too large". Yes, I agree fully. But what I find is often times, images I
work on don't fill nowhere near the 3D volume of a working space. And for
those times, would you say it is less of an issue?
As for the method of soft proofing used by Photoshop, I for one, would very
much like to see a color-coded gamut warning, like you see in (now defunct)
ColorSynbergy and I think a few other CMS editors too (I cite ColorSynergy
because that's the one that comes to mind). So, for very out of gamut
colors, we could see some kind of red colors, for moderate out of gamut
colors, we'd see a green colors and for near gamut colors, the code could be
gray.
It took me a while to adopt AdobeRGB but I've now fully rationalize it so
that's what I use in my RGB Working Space not only in Photoshop but also in
Illustrator and InDesign. And I use the View>ProofColors when I am in doubt.
Maybe we're saying the same thing here but I felt important to take the time
to respond.
Regards,
Roger Breton
Laval, Canada
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