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 09:59:09 -0700
On Dec 9, 2003, at 9:22 AM, email@hidden wrote:
>You don't have to set the display in the color settings and risk harm
>elsewhere. Just use the RGB Soft proof and pick Monitor RGB and
you'll see
>what the file looks like to those other applications.
Dude, you're preaching to the choir.
>I'd use the display profile to tag a file scanned from color neg as
well so
>it's not a concept that's wrong. It works in some cases. I'd still
not have
>the display profile actually loaded in the color settings (or
recommend it).
Alas, that is exactly what the author suggests, among other things. I
believe the Profile Mismatch Policies were also supposed to be set to
"Convert to Working RGB"...so everything coming in gets converted to
the unsuspecting user's monitor profile. Like Chris said, if it gets
tagged, its not a total wash, but why throw out color?
Convert to Working RGB or CMYK is a perversion, in my mind. It's an
automation option, and I think its functionality should be moved to the
Automate menu, and removed from Color Settings altogether. It's just
too dangerous to put that razor blade into the hands of unsuspecting
users (and apparently unsuspecting authors, and their readers.)
Once again, if this were a web workfow or a workflow that isn't
particularly concerned about color quality, then sure go ahead and
automatically convert files without warning. But we learned this lesson
back with Photoshop 5, and it's not considered high quality workflow to
do this.
If the working space is Monitor RGB, and the RGB color management
policy is to convert, then we're talking about data loss in every case
where the source space has a larger gamut than Monitor RGB. For this to
be the recommended behavior of an application targeted at a wide
audience, under the context of high quality output, is a contradiction
and not a good recommendation.
Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
www.colorremedies.com/realworldcolor
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Co-author "Real World Color Management"
Published by PeachPit Press (ISBN 0-201-77340-6)
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