Re: Photoshop Euro v2 profile & troubles
Re: Photoshop Euro v2 profile & troubles
- Subject: Re: Photoshop Euro v2 profile & troubles
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:19:07 +0000
Graeme Gill <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I don't understand why it should be the case however. It should be possible
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> to get fairly close to the result of Euroscale v2 using the custom CMYK
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> dialog. Certainly the tools are cruder than those used to generate the Euro
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> v2 profile, so I'm not expecting a perfect match :-)
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What makes you think so ? One is using 4D Luts based on thousands of
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measurements, while the other is based on 12-16 values and a crude
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model of how a printing process behaves. If they resemble each other
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slightly, you are doing well.
Actually, nothing really makes me think so :-)
I know it doesn't work and see examples of how it doesn't work on a weekly
basis. I see the sad faces of have-a-go designers and photographers whose
images have been screwed because they took the initiative of making their
own web profile using Photoshop.
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> But what we get is a result that shares little resemblance with the result
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> of the Euro v2 profile.
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> This should be fixed.
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The fact that a simple model of a printing process doesn't match that of a
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thorough characterization, can hardly be regarded as a fault.
Photoshop provides the tools to produce a *reasonable* separation for US web
presses. They don't for European web presses.
I think that this is something that needs fixing.
Andrew and Chris are under the impression that European web printing is some
kind of esoteric pursuit. This is hardly the case. Even George Bush himself
could find a web press in a country the size of... Err... France.
--
Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd -- The Image Specialists
http://www.idea-digital.com
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