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: bruce fraser <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:50:44 -0800
At 11:22 AM -0500 12/9/03, email@hidden wrote:
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?
It's a stupid idea. As others have pointed out, it's not necessarily
a catastrophe, but it doesn't come within shouting distance of being
an optimal workflow.
Chris, several monitor profiling packages let you simply profile the
current state of the monitor without forcing a calibration or making
any assumptions about gray balance. ProfileMaker Pro does this, and
the Sony Artisan lets you profile the native gamma of the monitor
without tweaking the video LUT.
I've long felt that forcing the display to a specific gamma value is
a hangover from the days when we tried to do color management by
trying to force every monitor to behave identically (which didn't
work). Nowadays I generally set color temperature (on CRTs), white
luminance and black level, then profile at the native gamma. It gives
me an accurate display with smooth gradients, where forcing a gamma
tweak often produces some banding.
Bruce
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