Re: embedding colorsync profiles in digital images
Re: embedding colorsync profiles in digital images
- Subject: Re: embedding colorsync profiles in digital images
- From: Armand Rosenberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:42:08 -0500
At 7:39 PM -0800 11/18/03, email@hidden wrote:
You'll need to convert to a space that's more in line
with how your display behaves (something like ColorMatch RGB for Mac users
or sRGB for PC users). That doesn't mean the preview is correct! But it's as
close as you can get with a non color managed application.
Although Andrew (Rodney)'s advice is excellent as usual, I wish to
point out that my Mac monitor is calibrated to 6500K and gamma=2.2,
which is closer to sRGB (or a PC monitor, if you wish) than
ColorMatch. AFAIK most Mac users are doing the same these days (with
some notable exceptions), so the old notion that Mac monitors are
different than PC monitors is no longer valid. While there is
certainly no inherent difference in the Mac vs PC monitors or cards,
users may prefer certain settings over others in these 2 worlds of
desktop computing.
I still see this type of (Mac vs PC) advice, but mostly in PC-centric
sw and hw. I'm surprised to see Andrew Rodney make this comment,
knowing that he is quite familiar with Macs.
That said, the basic idea of using sRGB as a substitute to get
"close" to good color is good advice in many situations where
profiling is not possible for some reason. sRGB seems to be a type of
de facto standard out there. I have found it useful for monitors,
printers and scanners. It's not an ideal (ie accurate) workflow by
far, but it can save the day in a pinch.
Armand
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