Re: Wide gamut CMYK profiles
Re: Wide gamut CMYK profiles
- Subject: Re: Wide gamut CMYK profiles
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:24:04 EST
In a message dated 3/24/03 2:48:53 PM, email@hidden writes:
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> But if their files are alreadu gamut clipped to PressCMYK, then a wider
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space
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> would only allow for adding brighter vector colors or other peripheral
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stuff;
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> it won't magicly make their images any brighter unless you make a blind
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> saturation increase across the board in the process, which is not really
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a
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> very effective technique.
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Well, yes it would. What I'm talking about is taking a "PressCMYK" image
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and
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effectively re-assigning a new wider gamut CMYK profile to the image.
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If you convert to the new profile, it will be the same colors, but with
larger "potential" for other colors. If you lie and assign it instead, then
the colors will be arbitrarily brighter. It won't bring back the clipped
ones, just stretch the remaining ones, so you will get things like lurid
fleshtones, and superlush foliage. I'm not being a color theory purist; I'm
relating the emperical limitations I've come across when attempting to lie,
cheat, and steal in this manner.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
email@hidden
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