Re: fundamental question - monitor profile as working RGB?
Re: fundamental question - monitor profile as working RGB?
- Subject: Re: fundamental question - monitor profile as working RGB?
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:05:36 -0700
On Dec 9, 2003, at 9:20 AM, michael shaffer wrote:
Chris Murphy writes ...
On Dec 9, 2003, at 8:13 AM, michael shaffer wrote:
(1) PS working spaces are R=G=B neutral ... monitor spaces are not.
I don't have a breakdown on this, but I know many monitor spaces these
days are gray balanced because the calibration process is assumed to
have gray balanced the monitor. ...
Granted! However, a calibrated monitor shouldn't assume to be
grayscale
neutral, especially over some length of time ... and then to want to
edit a
previous file which had belonged in a previous monitor space. Even
then I
believe PS could hold it all together, but would anyone consider it
good
practice?
It depends on how quality conscious you are. If you're a visual person,
editing and correcting visually, this practice will not lie to you.
That you lose the benefit of R=G=B, and that the behavior of the
editing space will change every time you re-profile the display is
probably beside the point. If you're more meticulous, and doing high
end consumer or professional image enhancement, repair or color
correction, then I'd say it's not a particularly good practice.
Maybe a halfway decent analogy is getting a bit of a car door dent on
your car. If it's a 20 year old car, you probably don't care at all. If
it's a 5 year old car you like, it's probably annoying. If it's a brand
new car, or a 20 year old car in mint condition, you might be pissed.
So it really depends on the context of the recommendation. I haven't
read the article so I don't know the full context.
Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
www.colorremedies.com/realworldcolor
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