Re: Profiling Fuji Pictrography
Re: Profiling Fuji Pictrography
- Subject: Re: Profiling Fuji Pictrography
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 23:48:50 -0500
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I recently profiled a Fuji Pictrography 3500 for a client. With some
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very minor profile edits, I was able to get a really nice match when
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soft proofing with the Fuji profile. However, my client finds using the
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soft proof function to be too much trouble and wants me to adjust the
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Fuji output to match what he sees on screen when working in his regular
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RGB working space (can't remember whether it's Colormatch or Adobe
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RGB.) Is that as wrong as it sounds to me? It seems very backwards.
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Anyone have compelling arguments against doing this that I might be
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able to use to educate my client a bit?
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Thanks,
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Chris
Coercing a Fuji Pictrography to mimic some RGB reference space through a
screen gamut is really going back in times to pre-ICC Photoshop era --
versions 4 and below. I think this idea is plain wrong and should be
resisted at all costs. The best argument I can think of to resist your
friend's tendency to hang on to its antiquated beliefs is to show that your
Fuji profile does all the necessary translations from whathever reference
color space your friends elects to work with to the printer's colors. I
would advise your friend to continue working the way he does but, at the
same time, he needsto be shown how simple and straightforward converting to
the Fuji color space at print time is all that's required of him in order to
get the best out of both Photoshop and the Fuji Pictrography. I think it's
probably the best argument. Photoshop has made color really easy since it
embraced the ICC in 1999, with version 5. And there is no turning back in
times for Adobe. So why should your friend keep looking back to the past for
answers to his color problems when they lie in the present?
Regards,
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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