Re: Workflow for Photographers
Re: Workflow for Photographers
- Subject: Re: Workflow for Photographers
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:08:49 EST
John,
<<- I can either open the image using the embeded profile or convert the
document's colors to my working space.
(If the above is correct, when would I need to convert to my working
space?)
- I can either open the image using the embeded profile or convert the
document's colors to my working space.(If the above is correct, when would I need to
convert to my working space?)>>
1) If the gamut of the printer is larger in some area that is of value to you
than sRGB and you are planning to perform color edits on your sRGB-captured
images to take advantage of this, then converting to your working space
(AdobeRGB) may indeed be beneficial. Then make your edits and convert to the printer
profile. If the printer just can't print certain colors, then you are pretty
much screwed. You can make the color edits as you descriibed or change
rendering intents which may help somewhat. Make sure you are soft-proofing with the
gamut warning so you can see where your problem areas are. Of course all this
assumes you really have the lab's actual printer profile, not just some proxy.
2) If you don't have the lab's actual printer profile or they require you to
send sRGB data, then there is not much point to converting to another working
space. In this case, soft proofing will be of limited utility also. That
because the gamuts of sRGB and a particular printer will be different in general.
So there will be an additional gamut map at the lab that you won't be able to
soft-proof.
Eric Walowit
Tahoe
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