Re: embedding colorsync profiles in digital images
Re: embedding colorsync profiles in digital images
- Subject: Re: embedding colorsync profiles in digital images
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:06:55 -0700
on 11/19/03 2:41 PM, Grant Symon wrote:
>
According to the docs I've read, MacOS X's built-in apps, are by
>
definition ColorSync aware because ColorSync is fundamentally built-in
>
to MacOS X.
Safari? It wasn't prior to Panther (it was if you opened a file but not if
the file was in an HTML doc). I think that's fixed in Panther.
But the fact is also that an untagged file is mystery meat. So even if
Preview is color managed, it has to guess what the meaning of the numbers
are which is the point here. If I give you two identical files but one is in
sRGB and the other is in ColorMatch RGB but the files are both untagged, how
can the application know what to make of them and preview them correctly?
You simply have to guess hence the recommendation that if the untagged file
came from a Mac, you'll probably statistically be closer guessing its Apple
RGB or ColorMatch and if you know it came from a PC, sRGB. But you have to
guess in any case.
Andrew Rodney
http://www.imagingrevue.com/
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