Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 3 #1126 - 14 msgs
Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 3 #1126 - 14 msgs
- Subject: Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 3 #1126 - 14 msgs
- From: mo <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:16:13 -0800
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> I agree that sRGB needs to be the assumed source for untagged files,
YES, untagged should be sRGB.
but I would also propose that a special case exception be made for sRGB, where
it would be possible to tag it as sRGB without including the actual sRGB
profile...
WTF?
That's silly.
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>>RGB profiles are small, certainly, but you need to get off your T1
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>>line and back on dialup to understand the impact of adding 4k to
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>>every single JPEG on the web. It's not going to happen anyway, but
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>>I'll argue strongly that it makes bugger-all sense to load the web
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>>with tons of redundant data in the form of zillions of copies of the
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>>sRGB profile.
interesting point.
and the solution is?
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>I agree that sRGB needs to be the assumed source for untagged files,
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>but I would also propose that a special case exception be made for
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>sRGB, where it would be possible to tag it as sRGB without including
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>the actual sRGB profile... that would remove the space issue without
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>removing the needed information; after all, the OS and applications
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>can have access to an sRGB profile without appending it to every web
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>graphic.
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Rather than special-casing sRGB, it would be nice to have that
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mechanism for any of a family of 'standard' profiles. Applications
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already do this with default profiles, and I had been under the
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impression that that was what the ColorSync default profiles were
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supposed to do.
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As far as explicit tagging-without-embedding goes, EXIF already
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supports that for sRGB, and supposedly the next version will also
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support Adobe RGB. Doesn't html offer a way to tag files by reference
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to a profile without actually embedding it?
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Untagged images should be sRGB!!!!!!!!!!! that way we don't need tags for web.
mo
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