ColorSync...TURN IT OFF! (?!)
ColorSync...TURN IT OFF! (?!)
- Subject: ColorSync...TURN IT OFF! (?!)
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 14:23:43 -0800
Eric Bullock wrote:
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: ColorSync...TURN IT OFF! (was: ICC in OSX compared to OS9)
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From: email@hidden
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Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 08:10:14 -0600
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I say TURN IT OFF! Do all of your color management up front in
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Photoshop. Bruce stated it very clearly in one of his latest posts:
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> I print profiling targets out of Photoshop, using Source = Document,
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> Print = Same as Source, driver set to No Color Adjustment.
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> I build profiles from said targets.
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> I print from Photoshop (or InDesign) using Source = Document, Print =
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> the profiles I built above, driver set to No Color Adjustment
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That is the workflow that has been working for me (more or less) in both
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OS 9, Jaguar, and Panther.
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Eric Bullock
"Turning it off" is not an option. In order for ColorSync-based color
management to work within individual applications (Photoshop, InDesign,
etc.), ColorSync MUST be active at the OS level. And it CANNOT be turned off
anyway, for all I know. To suggest that it can be may engender confusion in
some users, possibly ones who are just starting to use color management.
Eric's suggested solution (to work within color-managed applications in the
manner suggested by Bruce), while I completely concur in its desirability
and effectiveness, would itself not be feasible if ColorSync were to be
turned "OFF" at the system level, as suggested. (How exactly would one
endeavor to do that anyway...?)
So, a more appropriate way to say it is, in my opinion, that some may be
prey to the misconception that, since the ColorSync engine is active at the
OS level, one can merrily forget to fine-tune any controls within the final
applications from which correct color is to be generated, and still expect
color-managed results. At the current stage of development of the
technology, the exact opposite is true: quite far from being automated,
color management is still very much a careful hands-on type of business,
with no easy shortcuts: knowledgeable use of the tools is still an
inescapable requirement. That MAY change in the future, but at the present
time there seem to be no easy recipes available.
That may have been what Eric meant to say all along, but I wanted to spell
it out for the sake of clarity.
(Bruce, any comments?)
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Marco Ugolini
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